Legal Opinion
Benjamin v. AIG Insurance
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided April 12, 2012No. S. Ct. Civ. No. 2010-0025PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(April 12, 2012)
CABRET, Associate Justice.
Fitzroy Williams was a full-time employee of the appellee, Esso Virgin Islands, Inc. (“Esso”) in 1994, when he vanished along with the plane in which he was traveling. Williams had a life insurance policy through Esso naming R.W., his minor son, as the sole beneficiary. After years of Esso’s refusal to pay on the life insurance policy following Williams’s disappearance, Patricia Benjamin, as court appointed guardian for R.W., filed suit in the Superior Court seeking the life insurance proceeds and additional damages, claiming (1)…
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