Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Stitzel

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party must “explicitly waive his interest in the life insurance proceeds in the property settlement agreement.”
• finding that a general waiver does not rise to the level of specificity required to plainly indicate elimination
• finding language relinquishing “any and all claims ... actions, causes of action” to be too general to serve as waiver
• waiver of \any and all claims ... of whatsoever kind or nature\ found not to waive claim to beneficiary interest in life insurance plan
• waiver of “any and all claims ... of whatsoever kind or nature” found not to waive claim to beneficiary interest in life insurance plan
• waiver of \any and all claims . . . of whatsoever kind or nature\ found not to waive claim to beneficiary interest in life insurance plan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).