Forcier Ex Rel. Estate of Forcier v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that federal common law \requires that we accord [a contract's] unambiguous language its plain and ordinary meaning\
• describing how a facility-of-payment clause “puts both the policy-holder and the participant on notice that, in the absence of a beneficiary designation, payment by [the insurer] to any member(s) of an enumerated class ‘will discharge [the company’s] liability for the amount so paid’ ”
• “Met-Life contracted for an extremely free hand in deciding to whom ... the policy’s proceeds would be paid in the absence of a designated beneficiary.”
• “MetLife contracted for an extremely free hand in deciding to whom . . . the policy’s proceeds would be paid in the absence of a designated beneficiary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).