Legal Opinion
McLaughlin v. Hartford Life & Annuity Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 25, 2017No. Case No. 17–cv–500 (CRC)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
From the nation's capital, a case brought by the estate of John Joseph McLaughlin, longtime moderator of the raucous political roundtable The McLaughlin Group .
Question! On a scale from one to ten-with one being the chance of a Washington, D.C. professional sports team winning a championship this year and ten being absolute metaphysical certainty-how certain is the Court that Mr. McLaughlin, upon his divorce from his former wife Christina Vidal, intended for her to benefit from two life insurance annuities that he brought to the marriage? Any…
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