Rarogiewicz v. Brotherhood of American Yeomen

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Insurance — evidence — physicians and surgeons — confidential communications — action to recover on certificate of life insurance —• exclusion of certificate of attending physician submitted by plaintiff as part of proof of death — exclusion of testimony of medical interne and of record made by him upon admission of insured to hospital.

Rarogiewicz v. Brotherhood of American Yeomen, 215 App. Div. 794 , affirmed.

Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered January 26, 1926, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court. The action was to recover upon a certificate of benefit insurance, upon the fife of plaintiff's husband. The defense was that certain statements in the application warranted by the applicant to be true were in fact false. The questions on appeal were whether the exclusion of a certificate of the attending physician of insured, submitted by plaintiff as part of the proofs of death, and the exclusion of testimony of a medical interne and of a record made by her upon the reception of insured in the hospital where he died, constituted reversible error.