Occidental Life Insurance Co. of North America v. Benoit

PAINTER, Judge.

|, Occidental Life Insurance Company of North America (Occidental) instituted this concursus proceeding by depositing the proceeds of a certain life insurance policy into the registry of the court and made Ruby Benoit (Benoit) and Deaundra L. Francis (Francis), both of whom claim to be the sole beneficiary of the policy, defendants. Francis filed a reconventional demand seeking to reform the policy to name her beneficiary or, in the alternative, seeking damages for negligence on the part of Occidental. The trial court reformed the policy to name Francis as beneficiary,…