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Texas property owners now have a new tool to avoid probate. Effective September 1, 2015, Texas Estate Code Section 114.151 allows for Transfer on Death Deeds, [subscribers can access an enhanced version of this legislation: lexis.com | Lexis Advance ...

Life insurance is usually purchased to protect his or her spouse and children in the event of an untimely death. Sometimes life insurance is purchased for a malicious purpose. Insurers have paid benefits to a spouse after a murder only to find later that...

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced today that the California Department of Insurance has, with other state insurance regulators, reached a settlement agreement with New York Life Insurance Company over the insurer's use of the...

By Professor by Leo P. Martinez Hillman v. Maretta , decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 3, 2013 [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], illustrates the intricacies of the constitutional preemption doctrine and the difficulty...

By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant When a person leases a portion of a structure with multiple tenants it is usual for the landlord to promise to buy property insurance to protect the entire structure and make, as part of the rent charged, the...

By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant It is the essence of insurance that for insurance to exist the person insured must have an insurable interest in the property or life insured. Life insurance insurable interest can be defined as an interest...

BY: MARK S. THOMAS & ROBERT W. SHAW A federal district court recently applied the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara (2011) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], in a practical setting that illuminates...

By David M. Watts, Jr Beneficiary designations are forms that are routinely completed for life insurance policies, retirement accounts and even some bank and investment accounts. The forms say who will receive the asset upon the asset owner's death...

As I tell my clients and audiences during presentations, one should never name one's estate as beneficiary of an IRA or other retirement account. If the estate is the beneficiary, whether from a purposeful designation, failure to name a beneficiary...

By: Hon. James D. Pagones , Surrogate, Dutchess County It depends. As Woody Allen comedically stated: "I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet interesting people, you travel a lot." 1 As the New York Court of Appeals concisely stated...

BY: MARK S. THOMAS & ROBERT W. SHAW A federal district court recently applied the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara (2011) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], in a practical setting that illuminates...

By David M. Watts, Jr Beneficiary designations are forms that are routinely completed for life insurance policies, retirement accounts and even some bank and investment accounts. The forms say who will receive the asset upon the asset owner's death...

By: Hon. James D. Pagones , Surrogate, Dutchess County It depends. As Woody Allen comedically stated: "I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet interesting people, you travel a lot." 1 As the New York Court of Appeals concisely...

By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant It is the essence of insurance that for insurance to exist the person insured must have an insurable interest in the property or life insured. Life insurance insurable interest can be defined as an interest...

By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant When a person leases a portion of a structure with multiple tenants it is usual for the landlord to promise to buy property insurance to protect the entire structure and make, as part of the rent charged,...