Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Carr

*570MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FITZWATER, District Judge.

This civil action requires the court to interpret the term “parent” in 5 U.S.C. § 8705(a).

I

At the time of his death, Carl D. Curlee (“decedent”) was an employee of the U.S. Postal Service and an insured of plaintiff, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Metropolitan”). Decedent died intestate, unmarried, and without children. He also failed to designate a beneficiary of his life insurance policy with Metropolitan.

The Metropolitan policy was issued under the Federal Group Life Insurance Program, pursuant to the Federal Employees’ Group…