Order Awarding Optional Life Insurance Benefits Reversed By Panel

Mealey's (August 27, 2019, 11:12 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A Nebraska federal judge’s order awarding optional life insurance (OLI) benefits to the widow of a Ford employee was reversed Aug. 23 by an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel, which found that the decedent’s automatic enrollment in the OLI benefit program was premised on a false answer to an online health history questionnaire (Silvia Sepulveda-Rodriguez v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al., No. 18-1760, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 25319)....