ABSTRACT
The Holocaust settlement issues clearly and unambiguously point to the present-day validity of life policies held by the Armenians during the pre-Genocide era despite having remained dormant for over ninety years. A claim against the New York Life Insurance Company for a life policy benefit emanating from the Armenian Genocide was made on October 8, 1998, in a district court in Los Angeles, California. Despite California's statutory limitation allowing claims arising from the Armenian genocide era to be pursued in a California court system, New York Life kept its policy of prevarication by changing its strategy. The case against the French insurance company AXA S.A. was the second of its kind to be brought in a US District Court in the Central District of California. The same group of attorneys that represented the plaintiffs against New York Life also represented Kyurkjian and Ouzounian et al. against AXA S.A.
