Case No: 16-1432 (As published by the US Supreme Court) The retroactive application of Minnesota’s revocation-on-divorce statute – which automatically nullifies an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation on a life-insurance policy or other will substitute – does not violate the Contracts Clause.
Upon a bench trial of an interpleader action to determine the rightful beneficiary of the decedent’s life insurance policy, the court found that the evidence showed that the decedent herself had misunderstood that she only possessed one policy when she sent concurrent letters naming her children as the beneficiaries under one policy number and her...
Insurer brought interpleader action against insured’s ex-wife and sisters to determine the rightful beneficiary of benefits of insured’s life insurance policy. Ex-wife and sisters filed cross-claims against each other, and ex-wife filed counterclaim against insurer. Ex-wife and sisters moved for summary judgment on the cross-claims. The Court held that the policy was governed by Virginia...
Case No: 11–1221 (As published by the US Supreme Court) The Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 (FEGLIA) establishes an insurance program for federal employees. FEGLIA permits an employee to name a beneficiary of life insurance proceeds, and specifies an “order of precedence” providing that an employee’s death benefits accrue first to that...
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