Legal Opinion
Crum v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 25, 2022No. S22Q0649PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
315 Ga. 67
FINAL COPY S22Q0649. CRUM v. JACKSON NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. PINSON, Justice. This case comes to us from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which has certified questions to us about Georgia life insurance law. Those questions are set out below in full. The basic question we need to answer is whether a person can legally take out an insurance policy on his own life with the intent to turn around and sell that policy to a third party who has no “insurable interest” in the policyholder’s life. The person seeking to recover on the life insurance policy…
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