Legal Opinion
Gerber Life Insurance v. Wallace
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided March 15, 2012No. Case No. 1:11-cv-31Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
HARRY S. MATTICE, JR., District Judge.
This interpleader action presents a straightforward question borne of tragic *999facts: Does Tennessee’s “Slayer Statute,” Tenn.Code Ann. § 31-1-106, bar insurance recovery by parents charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection with their child’s death? The Court concludes that it does not, and it will therefore GRANT Defendant Samantha Wallace’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 46).
I. STANDARD OF REVIEW
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 instructs the Court to grant summary judgment “if the movant shows that there is no…
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