Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Person

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEWBLATT, District Judge.

This case involves several interesting questions of ERISA law. For reasons discussed, infra, the Court DENIES General Motors’ Motion to Dismiss; DENIES Metropolitan Life’s Motion for Summary Judgment; and DENIES Claudetta Person, Joyce Slavik, and Paul Sova, Jr.’s Motion for Summary Judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Before the Court are three dispositive motions by Cross-Defendants arising from the payment of an employment-issued life insurance policy to a decedent’s mother instead of his child, in spite of a state divorce decree…