The Supreme Court is siding with a man's children over his ex-wife in a dispute about who should get more than $180,000 in life insurance proceeds.

Jurors in Dane County Circuit Court will decide how much insurance money should be paid to the parents of a doctor who was killed in an ambulance crash.

It is common, where there are minor children, for a divorce agreement to require at least the payor of child support and sometimes both parties to maintain life insurance with the children as beneficiaries.

2011AP2443 Bruskiewicz v. Bruskiewicz

2011AP1844 Larson v. Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.

Insurance Life insurance; reformation Where the owner of a life insurance policy never effectively transferred ownership to the person whose life is insured, the subsequent change in beneficiary is ineffective also. “[E]ven if we could somehow discover what Protective would have done had B&K been named an LLC, the proper focus here is not on what should have happened but ...

Insurance Life insurance; surrender Settlers Life Insurance Company appeals from summary judgment in favor of Rosemary Oaks for life insurance benefits on cancelled policies insuring the life of her husband, Ken Oaks. We reverse the judgment and remand for entry of an order granting Settlers’ motion to dismiss the complaint.  This opinion will not be published. 2009AP2061 Oaks v. Settlers ...