METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. SCOTT

Civ. A. No. 84-354.

587 F.Supp. 451 (1984)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. Bobby C. SCOTT, Richard K. Medina, Sr., Cynthia Medina, Eric Medina and Paula Whisner, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Scott, Jr., Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

Robert W. Doty, and Christopher R. Opalinski, Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant Bobby C. Scott.

Robert C. Makoski, Jeannette, Pa., for defendants Medina (Richard, Cynthia & Eric) and Paula Whisner.


MEMORANDUM

WEBER, District Judge.

The wife of a serviceman stationed in Germany took out an insurance policy on her life with Metropolitan, naming her husband as beneficiary, and her father as contingent beneficiary. Her husband, on furlough from a mental hospital, murdered her and shortly after killed himself.

Wife's father living in Tennessee made a claim for the policy. Metropolitan didn't pay him...

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