Mirror-Spectator Staff
LOS ANGELES — Lawyers representing the descendents of Armenian Genocide victims who never received payment on their life insurance policies planned to appeal a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against them on September 10.
A class-action suit, led by Glendale priest Vazken Movsesian and thousands of other Armenian Americans who seek payments on unpaid life insurance policies bought by Genocide victims won a favorable ruling in 2007 before it was overturned.
Attorney Mark Geragos, one of three Armenian-American lawyers representing the heirs, said the dissenting opinion in the 2-1 August 20 decision, written by Judge Harry Pregerson, would help make their case.
“There is no express federal policy forbidding California from using the term ‘Armenian Genocide’ in the course of exercising its traditional authority to regulate the insurance industry,” Pregerson wrote.
