Kemper Life Insurance v. Bezanson (In Re Medomak Canning Co.)

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL

GENE CARTER, Chief Judge.

In an interpleader action brought as an adversary proceeding in the Bankruptcy Court, Kemper Life Insurance Co. sought to determine the appropriate beneficiary of a life insurance policy insuring Bernard Lewis. All three Defendants asserted claims to the one million dollar policy. Defendant Suzanne Lewis counterclaimed seeking reformation of the contract on theories of mutual mistake and unilateral mistake based on negligence and indicated in discovery that she would also assert an independent claim of negligence…