Bovan v. American Family Life Insurance

Stacie Bovan, administrator of the estate of Lorenzo Hamilton, brought a wrongful death suit against American Family Life Insurance Company (American Family) and American Family agent Eric Lindsay. She alleged that Lindsay, as agent for American Family, had sold a life insurance policy to a man impersonating Hamilton and that the impostor was part of a conspiracy to murder the real Hamilton so that the conspirators could collect the death benefit. She thus contended that Hamilton’s death was a direct result of Lindsay’s negligence in processing the impostor’s application and American Family’s…