Judge: Individual Failed To Show She Was A Party To Life Insurance Contract

(February 27, 2017, 12:56 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — An insurer did not act in bad faith or breach its contract with a third party regarding payment of life insurance benefits because the third party failed to show that she had any contract with the insurer as she was not a beneficiary under the policy, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Feb. 14 in granting several motions to dismiss (Jeanetta Smith v. Union National Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 15-0009, S.D. Miss., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20658)....