Federal Judge Grants Dismissal In Dispute Over Elder’s Annuity Beneficiary Change

Mealey's (February 16, 2023, 10:00 AM EST) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York federal judge granted dismissal to a life insurance company and its agent in a breach of contract suit filed against them by a caregiver for an elderly terminal cancer patient, finding that the caregiver failed to “plausibly allege” that the cancer patient “did everything in her power” to make the caregiver the beneficiary of her annuity as intended before she died....