Cartwright v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

The plaintiffs, Robert Cartwright, Ferris H. (Buster) Ness, and Grace Ness, commenced this action by amended complaint filed in the District Court for the Twelfth Judicial District in Hill County. They alleged that the defendant, Blaine LeSuer, in his capacity as an agent for the defendant, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, misrepresented the terms of life insurance policies that he sold to them, that they relied on those misrepresentations to their detriment, and that as a result of the defendants’ conduct, they were entitled to compensatory and punitive damages. The…