Roberts v. Wilcox

HAYES, Judge:

This appeal began as a declaratory judgment action filed by State Farm Life Insurance Company. On October 15, 1986, Bonnie Roberts purchased from State Farm a $25,000 life insurance policy. She named as beneficiary her husband, Thomas Roberts. On August 24, 1987, Thomas shot Bonnie. As a result, she was paralyzed from the neck down. On October 8, 1987, Bonnie apparently signed a change of beneficiary form, which removed Thomas as beneficiary under her life insurance policy and replaced him with Barbara A. Wilcox, her daughter, and Illene Henson, her sister. On December 30, 1987,…