California Court of Appeal October 31, 2007, No. F049876 (Principal Life Insurance v. Peterson)

Opinion

ARDAIZ, P. J.

Probate Code section 252 provides that when the named beneficiary of a life insurance policy “feloniously and intentionally kills” the person whose life is insured, the beneficiary “is not entitled to any benefit under the . . . policy . . . , and it becomes payable as though the killer had predeceased the decedent.” (Ibid.