Minnesota Life Insurance Co. v. Rings

OPINION AND ORDER

' Terence P. Kemp, United States Magistrate Judge

This insurance dispute arose, unfortunately, out of a murder-suicide that took place on September 2, 2015. As the undisputed facts of the case show, on that day, David Rings shot his wife Teresa and then shot himself. Mr, Rings had life insurance through his employer, Abbot Laboratories. He had named his wife as the sole beneficiary, but the policies (there are two of them with identical terms) contain language which specifies when a named beneficiary who dies at roughly the same time as the policyholder is still entitled to…