It is a common question: “Can you dispute a life insurance beneficiary?” Contesting beneficiary designations arises for a variety of reasons, among them: Beneficiary fraud; Life changes by the policy holder including marriage, divorce, …
Life Insurance Beneficiaries | Challenging a Claim
Life insurance beneficiary contests can be shocking. A loved one dies with a life insurance policy intact. Maybe you knew about the policy – maybe you didn’t. But one thing that you didn’t know about was the named beneficiary. Or, if you are the named …
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Life Insurance Beneficiary Challenges | Fraud and Undue Influence
Life insurance beneficiary challenges occur with some regularity in California’s Superior Courts. Timeliness is critical in contesting a life insurance beneficiary designation or life insurance beneficiary claim. If the life insurance payout is timely …
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California Life Insurance Beneficiary Disputes | Litigation
Representing clients in California life insurance beneficiary disputes a part of what we do at Hackard Law in addition to our estate, trust and elder financial abuse litigation practice. In 2017, “life insurance paid $77 billion to beneficiaries of …
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Life Insurance Harms | Undue Influence & Elder Financial Abuse
A California attorney has a duty both to his client and to the legal system to represent his client within the bounds of the law. This is how our system works. It helps to define advocacy. And it helps to explain why cases that outside observers might …
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Churning Life Insurance | Elder Financial Abuse
A recently published California case identifies the vulnerability of elders to financial abuse through life insurance schemes like churning. The California Insurance Code provides in part that anyone “engaged in the transaction of insurance” with an elder …
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