Philadelphia Life Insurance Co. v. Moffat

KAROHL, Judge.

This lawsuit began as an interpleader action filed by Philadelphia Life Insurance Company. Philadelphia Life issued decedent, Vita Miceli, a life insurance policy providing for payment of $50,000 to the beneficiary upon her death. The original beneficiary was her husband, Donald Lang. Just prior to her death Vita Miceli executed a change of beneficiary form which made the proceeds of the policy payable to her children by a prior marriage, Robert Mof-fat, Nicholas Moffat and Margaret O’Shaughnessy. [Hereafter, Moffats]. After Vita Miceli’s death on December 23, 1985 defendant…