Stewart v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MATTHEW F. KENNELLY, District Judge:

Laura L. Stewart, a Florida citizen, has sued The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, a Wisconsin company with its principal place of business in that state, and one of its sales agents, Illinois citizen Michael Bartenhagen. Stewart seeks to recover the death benefit on her late husband’s life insurance policy, of which she is the beneficiary.

Stewart alleges that on September 10, 2012—five days after her husband’s death—she paid her husband’s unpaid premiums in order to reinstate his lapsed policy, but that Northwestern…