PALMER, J.
This case requires us to decide whether the beneficiary of a life insurance annuity policy or the insurance company that issued the policy bears the loss resulting from the insurer's payment of the policy proceeds to a person fraudulently substituted as the beneficiary. The trial court held that the defendant, Pacific Standard Life Insurance Company, was not liable to the plaintiff, John F. Bigley,
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