Jenkins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Here is something new under the sun. An appellate court, by way of vindicating the proposition that an insured man may change his beneficiary to some one other than his wife or executor or administrator, has bestowed upon this so-called beneficiary a largesse that the insured never intended to bestow and has left unpaid the expenses of his last illness and funeral, which the insured had every intention of having paid out of the proceeds of the insurance.

It has taken this action in the face of the following facts:(1) An indication by the insured himself, at the time he took steps to change his…