State Farm Life Insurance Co. v. Martinez

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the “statute defines a ‘claim’ to . . . limit coverage to beneficiaries named in the policy”
• holding, in a life insurance case, that interpleader actions filed within sixty days are not unreasonably late
• explaining that after funds are deposited into registry, “interest accrues to its ultimate owner”
• “Assessing penalty interest and attorney’s fees after an interpleader is filed would punish insurers for doing exactly what Texas law encourages.”
• \Assessing penalty interest and attorney's fees after an interpleader is filed would punish insurers for doing exactly what Texas law encourages.\
• stating an “in-terpleader [that] merely delays payment ... should not toll the statute’s penalties” and “only the absence of rival claims justifies continuing statutory penalties after in-terpleader occurs”

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