Dallas life insurance attorneys need to read this opinion just issued from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The style of the case is, Cardenas v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company. This case arises from United of Omaha Life Insurance Company’s denial of Cardenas’s claim for benefits from a…
Fort Worth life insurance attorneys will want to ready this Dallas case. The case is styled, Bich Ngoc Nguyen v. Allstate Insurance Company and Lincoln Benefit Life Insurance Company. The opinion is from the Dallas Court of Appeals and was issued on May 29, 2013. Here is some relevant information…
Fort Worth life insurance attorneys will understand why people need an attorney’s help in these disputes after reading this case. The case is styled, Cheryl M. Patterson and Aundrell Patterson v. American General Life Insurance Company. The opinion was issued in May 2013, by the Houston Court of Appeals, 1st…
Dallas life insurance attorneys need to know about the incontestability clause in life insurance contracts. What most people don’t know is that life insurance policies must contain an incontestability clause. This is a paragraph that says the policy will be incontestable after it has been in force during the lifetime…
Dallas life insurance attorneys need to read and know this 1986, Amarillo Court of Appeals case. It is styled, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co v. Dettle. Here is some relevant information: Southern Farm is appealing from a trial court finding in favor or Dettle. The controversy arose from the…
Dallas life insurance lawyers need to be aware of this 1981, Eastland Court of Appeals case. The style is Pilot Life Insurance Company v. Koch. Here is some of the relevant information: This is a declaratory judgment case. Pilot Life sought a judgment declaring that it had no duty to…
Arlington life insurance attorneys need to have this 1967, Texas Supreme Court case, at hand in case the need for it arises. The style of the case is, McFarland v. Franklin Life Insurance Company. Here is the relevant information. In 1950, Franklin Life issued a policy of insurance on the…
Fort Worth life insurance attorneys need to understand the 1980, Texas Supreme Court case, Life Ins. Co. of the Southwest v. Overstreet. Here is some relevant background information. In February, 1972, Overstreet submitted his application to Southwest to convert a five-year term life policy to a life insurance policy with…
Fort Worth life insurance lawyers need to know about these sections of the Texas Insurance Code that prohibit certain limitations in a life insurance policy. Here’s the first one to know: Texas Insurance Code, Section 1101.053. This sections says that “A life insurance policy may not include a provision that…
Dallas Life Insurance lawyers need to know this case. The case is styled Wilke v. Finn et al. It is a 1931, that was approved by the Texas Court of Appeals. Here is some relevant information. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, on December 31, 1923, issued to Herman Finn a…