ESTATE OF BASS v. REGIONS BANK, INC.

Nos. 17-13048, 18-12917.

947 F.3d 1352 (2020)

ESTATE OF David BASS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REGIONS BANK, INC., Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason H. Coffman , Law Office of Jason H. Coffman, ATLANTA, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William James Holley, II , Erik J. Badia , Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs, LLP, ATLANTA, GA, for Defendant-Appellee REGIONS BANK, INC.

John Norman Bolus , Christopher Charles Frost , Jennifer A. Stanley , Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, BIRMINGHAM, AL, for Defendant-Appellee FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

Before JORDAN and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.


I.

A.

David Bass instructed Fidelity Investments ("Fidelity") to write a check to his sister-in-law, Ruth Barr, consisting of his entire retirement savings from his Fidelity 401k account. The purpose of the check was to set up an IRA account for Bass that would be administered by Ruth.

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