Lundsford v. Western States Life Insurance

Opinion by

Judge VAN CISE.*

Defendants, Western States Life Insurance (Western States) and North American Life & Casualty Company (NALAC), appeal the judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs, Tammi Lunsford, Lori Hustwaite, Kathy Webster, Perry Edison Nelson, III, and Brooke Erin Nelson. Plaintiffs cross-appeal the trial court’s rulings dismissing their additional claims for recovery against defendants. We reverse.

This case concerns the proper disposition of life insurance proceeds upon the death of the insured, Perry Nelson, who disappeared on July 23, 1983, while on a road…