Legal Opinion

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada v. Imperial Premium Finance, LLC

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided September 18, 2018No. 17-10189; 17-10415PublishedCited by 116 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

These two appeals arise from dueling lawsuits pitting Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada ("Sun Life"), a life insurance company, against Imperial Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates ("Imperial"), a company that offers financing for insureds to pay their monthly premium payments. Both suits relate to life insurance policies that were issued by Sun Life to non-parties and that were subsequently acquired by Imperial. Imperial is therefore a *1203stranger to the insureds, yet, as the owner of the policies, it stands to receive the life insurance benefits upon the deaths of the…

2Cases cited62 opinions

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