Legal Opinion
Jacobelli v. Regan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 5, 1987PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Harvey, J.
This dispute over the death benefits of Vincent Jacobelli (hereinafter decedent), a member of the New York State Employees’ Retirement System (hereinafter retirement system), who died in September 1976, has been before this court on two previous occasions (114 AD2d 609; 88 AD2d 1040). Briefly stated, petitioner, who is decedent’s brother, seeks to recover the death benefits on behalf of decedent’s estate. Respondent has refused to pay the funds to the estate because decedent filed a "designation of beneficiary” form with respondent in 1949 in which he purported…
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