Susie Thompson Burgess v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company

VRATIL, District Judge.

In this diversity action commenced under Oklahoma law, plaintiff appeals the district court’s order granting defendant summary judgment on plaintiffs claims seeking payment of death benefits pursuant to a life insurance policy issued by defendant to plaintiffs husband. 1 Following his death, defendant refused to pay those benefits to plain■'tiff, decedent’s beneficiary, because of misrepresentations concerning the insured’s medical history contained in the insurance application.

This court reviews a district court’s summary judgment decision de novo, viewing the record…