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PHOENIX LIFE INS. CO. v. ESTATE OF GRAVES

No. 2006 CA 0040.

950 So.2d 773 (2006)

PHOENIX LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. ESTATE OF Sylvia Kennedy GRAVES and Estate of Emory L. Graves.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

November 3, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nan Roberts Eitel, Washington, D.C., Virginia W. Gundlach, New Orleans, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee Phoenix Life Insurance Company.

Raymond C. Burkart, Jr., Covington, Counsel for Defendants/Appellants Christy and Ann Grace, Executrixes of/and the Succession of Emory L. Graves, Sr.

Thomas E. Schafer, III, New Orleans, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee Julie Kennedy-Fagan, Individually and as Executrix of the Succession of Sylvia Antonia Acosta-Graves.

Before: PETTIGREW, DOWNING and HUGHES, JJ.

DOWNING, J.

In this appeal, the Estate of Emory Graves contends that the trial court erred in finding that Phoenix Life Insurance Company (Phoenix) did not violate La. R.S. 22:1220(B)(5) when it failed to pay the proceeds of a life insurance policy within the allotted sixty-day period after receiving satisfactory proof of loss.

Sylvia Graves was the designated beneficiary in her husband, Emory Graves', policy. The policy provided that if Sylvia predeceased...

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