JAKOBIEC v. MERRILL LYNCH LIFE INS. CO.

No. 12-2053.

711 F.3d 217 (2013)

Thaddeus J. JAKOBIEC; Edmund S. Hibbard, Esq., Administrator of the Estate of Beatrice Jakobiec; Audrey Lum, Co-Trustee of the Lillian Smillie Trust; Frederick Jakobiec, M.D., Co-Trustee of the Lillian Smillie Trust, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MERRILL LYNCH LIFE INSURANCE CO., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 27, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Latici , with whom Law Office of Steven M. Latici, PA was on brief, for appellants.

Emily Gray Rice , with whom Christopher G. Aslin and Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A. were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, THOMPSON, Circuit Judge, CASPER, District Judge.


THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

Thomas Tessier and his brother Michael Tessier allegedly bilked brothers Frederick and Thaddeus Jakobiec and the estate of their mother, Beatrice Jakobiec, out of millions of dollars.1 This lawsuit is about only one facet of the Tessiers' overall scheme, their theft of almost $100,000 in life insurance proceeds due to a trust benefitting Thaddeus. Thaddeus, along with various persons affiliated with the trust and...

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