Ward v. Schillinger

STEPHAN, Judge.

Yvonne Ward, the widow of decedent Charles L. Ward, Jr., brought this action in October 1989 against State Farm Life Insurance Company (“State Farm”) and Jake Schillinger, its alleged employee, for negligence and fraudulent misrepresentation. Yvonne Ward claimed that Schillinger was negligent and that State Farm was negligent under a theory of vicarious liability for Schil-linger’s failure to list Yvonne Ward (“Widow”) as the beneficiary on decedent’s life insurance policy when it was purchased in 1983. Instead, the insurance policy as issued listed “all children of the…