Oswald v. Olds

BROSKY, Judge:

This appeal is from an order sustaining appellee’s preliminary objections in an action over the right to the proceeds of a life insurance policy. The Court of Common Pleas of Washington County concluded that venue over this case did not lie with it. 1 The court erred in that regard. We hold that venue was proper.

On the substantive issue concerning the change in beneficiary and the proceeds of an insurance policy, we note that once appellant had notice of the beneficiary change, she should then have challenged that alteration, a right given her under the Divorce Code. In the…