Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Forman v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance
47 L. Ed. 2d 319
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1976-02-23
- Topic
- general
holding that incontestability clauses prohibit challenges to validity of policy but not defenses relating to limitation of coverage | union not estopped when it pled inapplicability of collective bargaining agreement but specifically reserved right to proceed with arbitration if contract did apply | union not estopped when it pled inapplicability of collective bargaining agreement but specifically reserved right to proceed with arbitration if contract did apply | “presumption in favor of arbitrability ... should only be dispelled when the agreement explicitly exempts certain conduct ... or when the terms of the agreement, read as a whole, clearly envision nonarbitrability”
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.