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LUNSFORD v. WESTERN STATES LIFE INS.

No. 93SC764.

908 P.2d 79 (1995)

Tammi LUNSFORD, Lori Hustwaite, Kathy Webster, Perry Edson Nelson, III, a minor, and Brooke Erin Nelson, a minor, by and through their legal guardian ad litem, Ellen Trujillo, Petitioners, v. WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE and North American Life & Casualty Company, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, P.C., Harold A. Haddon, Rachel A. Bellis, Denver, Haines & Olsen, P.C., Susan Haines, Spencer J. Crona, Denver, for Petitioners.

Phelps, Singer & Dunn, Alan Gary Dunn, Joan M. Riordan, Denver, for Respondents.

Justice LOHR delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This case concerns the scope of protection provided by Colorado's "slayer statute" to insurance companies that paid life insurance policy proceeds to a primary beneficiary who was later determined to have murdered the insured, where the insurers did not receive written notice of competing claims from the contingent beneficiaries prior to disbursement. See § 15-11...

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