Legal Opinion

Dossett ex rel. Dossett v. Dossett

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided June 2, 1986PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This suit involves a claim for the proceeds of a group life insurance policy. The action was instituted by or on behalf of the children of the insured following his accidental death. Their claim is based upon the provisions of a divorce decree under the terms of which their father was required to maintain a policy upon his life with the children designated as beneficiaries. Insofar as the record shows, the children never were named beneficiaries of the policy. Their father remarried shortly after the divorce was granted and within six weeks he changed the beneficiary…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Goodrich v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1951
  2. Herrington v. BoatrightCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1982

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Holt v. HoltTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
  2. First National Bank of Shelbyville v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1987
  3. Holt v. LewisTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
  4. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America v. WillisDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 2021

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