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The Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's certification of a class challenging a life insurance company's closing of policies without notice for failure to pay premiums. Small v. Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 31231 (9th Cir. Dec. 10, 2024).
Provisions in California's Insurance Code…
The estate's claims against the life insurance company failed, but the Ninth Circuit remanded for further review claims against the decedent's employer. Estate of Foster v. Am .Marine Sys. Group Ben. Plan, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 3555 (9th Cir. Feb. 9, 2021).
The estate filed suit under the civil enforcement provision…
The plaintiff's suit against her agent for allegedly misleading her regarding certain investment strategies for proceeds of a life insurance policy and fees survived the agent's motion to dismiss. Waldemar v. Golden, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 204801 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 4, 2018).
The facts were based upon the allegations in…
The United State Supreme Court ruled that the divorced spouse of an insured under a life insurance policy had no constitutional challenge against a state statute that revoked her status as a beneficiary upon the insured's death. Sveen v. Melin, 584 U.S. ___ (2018), 2018 U.S. LEXIS 3503 (U.S. June 11, 2018).…
