Daniel Howard Ruttenberg

Daniel Howard Ruttenberg's Legal Cases (1)

Vienna, VA

Commercial real estate Lawyer at Vienna, VA

Practice Areas: Commercial, Estate Planning, Tax

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Estate planning

HILLMAN v. MARETTA

Apr 23, 2013

OUTCOME: Affirmed, 9-0

The Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act (FEGLIA), which establishes a life insurance program for federal employees, allows an employee to designate a beneficiary to receive the proceeds of the ... policy when the employee dies. That law preempts a Virginia law that allows the family of a deceased employee to sue the designated beneficiary for the proceeds if the beneficiary happens to be the employee’s former spouse.

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