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BONNER v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 09-6085.

621 F.3d 530 (2010)

Larry BONNER, Plaintiff and Counter Defendant-Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant Counter Plaintiff and Third Party Defendant-Appellee, Dorothy Ewing Williams, Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 15, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Marc I. Baretz , Attorney at Law, West Memphis, Arkansas, for Appellant. Lowell David Kass , Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Law Department, New York, New York, Gregory D. Cotton , Cotton Law Firm, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Marc I. Baretz , Attorney at Law, West Memphis, Arkansas, for Appellant. Gregory D. Cotton , Cotton Law Firm, Memphis, Tennessee, Kenneth P. Jones , Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews, PLC, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: SILER and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; CLELAND, District Judge.

OPINION

CLELAND, District Judge, sitting by designation.

A beneficiary designation must be "signed" to be effective under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act ("FEGLIA"). The only issue in this case is whether former federal employee James Williams, Jr., "signed" a beneficiary designation form in 1996. The district court concluded, as a matter of law, that he did not, and we AFFIRM.

I. BACKGROUND

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