policyholder
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 272 U.S. 613 - Duffy v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance · 1926Most cited · 14 citing opinions
Until the maturity of a policy, the policyholder is simply a member of the corporation, with no present enforceable right against the assets. Upon the maturity of the policy he becomes a creditor with an enforceable right. Then for the first time there is an indebtedness.
How often courts cite the case defining “policyholder”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “policyholder” — 47 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.