MATTER OF ESTATE OF BICKFORD

No. 95-446.

549 N.W.2d 804 (1996)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Dwight BICKFORD, Deceased. Judy K. WOODS, Administrator of the Estate of Dwight Bickford, Appellant, v. ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA a/k/a Alcoa, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company a/k/a Metlife, and Sonia K. Kruse f/k/a Sonia K. Bickford, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Norton and Brian T. Fairfield of Norton & Norton, Lowden, for appellant.

Jeffrey Reed of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & MacRae, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and William C. Davidson of Lane & Waterman, Davenport, for appellee Aluminum Company of America a/k/a ALCOA.

Mark J. Smith of Wells, Bowman & Smith, Davenport, for appellee Metropolitan Life Insurance.

Allan Hartsock of Winstein, Kavensky & Wallace, Rock Island, Illinois, for appellee Sonia Kruse.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, CARTER, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action to determine who is entitled to the proceeds of two life insurance policies—the named beneficiary who had been divorced from the decedent or the decedent's estate. The district court ruled that the named beneficiary was entitled to the proceeds notwithstanding the intervening divorce, and we affirm.

Dwight Bickford began working for Aluminum Company of America in 1966. As a part of the employer...

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