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ERISA: Murder for Profit and Life Benefits–State Slayer Statutes NOT Preempted by ERISA

By Mike Reilly on September 20, 2011
Posted in ERISA
“Murder is always a mistake.  One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” —Oscar Wilde
 
We’ll end the week on the uplifting note that “murder does not pay.”
 
What happens when the sole beneficiary of an ERISA plan life benefit kills the plan participant (insured)? 
 
Are state slayer

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