Legal Opinion
Welker v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, C.D. California
Decided November 5, 1980No. CV 79-2143-AWTPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
TASHIMA, District Judge.
This is an action in which plaintiff seeks to recover the benefits of a group life insurance policy issued by defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Metropolitan”) 1 under which decedent John (Jack) William Welker (“decedent”) was an insured. Jurisdiction is invoked on the basis of diversity of citizenship, 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
The first amended complaint alleges that plaintiff and decedent were married in a Nevada ceremony on May 6, 1967, and cohabited as husband and wife until decedent’s death in 1977. Both plaintiff and decedent had…
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