MINNESOTA LIFE INS. CO. v. JONES

No. 14-1063.

771 F.3d 387 (2014)

MINNESOTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. Quincy JONES, Defendant-Appellee, v. Angela Ashford, Intervening Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine A. T. Nelson , Attorney, Cozen O'Conner, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

George F. LaForte, Jr. , Attorney, Timothy Allen Hickey , Attorney, Bishop & La-Forte, LTD, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, Rafael Larue Taylor , Attorney, Barclay Law Group, P.C., for Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 2011 a man named Lenord Jones, a hospital orderly, was murdered in Harvey, Illinois. The murder has not been solved, and the police say that they are continuing to investigate.

Jones, who left no will, owned a life insurance policy that his employer had obtained for him from Minnesota Life Insurance Company. He did not designate a beneficiary, but the policy provided that the proceeds, which at his death amounted to nearly $307,000...

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