Legal Opinion
Hawkins v. Globe Life Insurance
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided May 13, 2015No. Civil No. 13-7814 (JS)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION 1
JOEL SCHNEIDER, United States Magistrate Judge.
This Opinion will address whether plaintiff can recover the proceeds of her $50,000 *433life insurance policy that she bought only weeks before her son was murdered. If the facts surrounding the case were fictional and not so tragic, they would produce a classic law school final examination.
In late August 2011, Natasha Hawkins (“Ms. Hawkins” or “plaintiff’) applied for a second policy of insurance on the life of her nineteen year-old son, Khalil Wallace (“Khalil”), from Globe Life Insurance Company (“Globe”). After Globe received plaintiffs…
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