(November 30, 2018, 10:46 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 28 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding that a life insurer did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying a widower the benefits of his wife's life insurance policy, finding that the only beneficiary ever designated was his deceased wife’s great-nephew (Jayson Crawford v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 17-11058, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 33401)....