Aetna Life Insurance v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an insured’s written change-of-beneficiary request was sufficient despite the fact “that he used the wrong form” and the fact “that the form was never received by the insurance company”
• holding that an insured’s written change-of-beneficiary request was sufficient despite the fact “that he used the wrong form” and the fact “that the form was never received by the insurance company”
• stating that an original beneficiary loses all rights under a policy if an “insured has done all he can to change a beneficiary.”
• stating that an original beneficiary loses all rights under a policy if an “insured has done all he can to change a beneficiary.”
• finding change in distribution had been effected by insured’s “substantial compliance” with policy’s terms for changing named beneficiary
• “The will clearly did not, and could not, effect a change of beneficiary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).