Taray v. Moldovanyi

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

Plaintiff in this diversity action seeks to recover approximately $31,000 in pension and death benefits paid to defendant by the New York Teachers’ Retirement System (“Retirement System”) upon the death of plaintiff’s husband, Otto Taray. The undisputed facts disclose that in 1963 Taray, before his marriage to plaintiff, had designated defendant his beneficiary of certain pension and death benefits due him under the Retirement System. Although there is some indication in the record that Taray intended to change his beneficiary designation after his…