Legal Opinion
Sun Life Assurance of Canada (U.S.) v. Barnard
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 3, 1995No. 94 CA 0402PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
|2LeBLANC, Judge.
This concursus involves two conflicting claims to the proceeds of a life insurance policy. The trial court concluded the insured, Charles Barnard, effectively changed his beneficiary from his wife, Estelle Barnard, to a friend, Carole Cole. The trial court’s judgment also dismissed Ms. Cole’s suit against the insurance agent who prepared the disputed change of beneficiary form. We reverse for the following reasons.
FACTS
Charles Barnard was the named insured on a $40,000.001 life insurance policy issued by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. On February 19, 1991, a change of…
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