Legal Opinion
Gerber Life Insurance Company v. Mia Harris, et al.
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided August 6, 2026No. 2:23-cv-01095Unknown
1Opinion
1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Gerber Life Insurance Company, No. CV-23-01095-PHX-DWL 10 Plaintiff, ORDER 11 v. 12 Mia Harris, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 15 This is an interpleader action that Gerber Life Insurance Company (“Gerber”) 16 initiated in June 2023 because “a death benefit [was] payable but the beneficiary is unclear 17 due to uncertainty over whether a so-called ‘slayer statute’ will bar a person accused of 18 causing the death from recovering the benefit.” (Doc. 10 at 3.) The three potential 19 claimants named in the amended…
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