Unum Life Insurance Co. of America v. Kelling

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting an insurance company’s petition for attorneys’ fees on the basis that conflicting claims to insurance benefits were inevitable during the course of the insurer’s business
• explaining the insurance company has interest in initiating a matter in interpleader because it “avoids the risk of paying the proceeds to the wrong beneficiary and being subject to subsequent litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).