Sharon O'Neal v. Constance Gonzalez

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the insurance policy is not a traditional contract between an insured and the insurer but a federal policy governed by federal law
• finding that an “insured’s designation of beneficiary under FEGLI prevails for all purposes” despite contractual agreement to do otherwise
• “while the result may be harsh, the language and intent of the statute are clear”
• Congress' intent under FEGLIA was to establish an \inflexible rule\ that only the beneficiary would receive the policy proceeds, \regardless of other documents or the equities in a particular case.\
• “. . . Congress intended to establish ... an inflexible rule that the beneficiary designated in accordance with the statute would receive the policy proceeds, regardless of other documents or the equities in a particular case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).