131 Ohio App. 3d 271
722 N.E.2d 176
Decided March 18, 1999
Ohio Court of Appeals · decided 1999-03-18
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Decided 1999-03-18
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2023
13 state decisions
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¶1 concurring in part and dissenting in part.
¶2 Unquestionably, Congress made clear its intent to allow a serviceman to select the beneficiary of his own government life insurance policy regardless of state law, but such legislation was not designed to overlook or ignore fraud or misrepresentation. Where the undisputed facts reveal a clear departure from the manifest purpose of such legislation, the law is not helpless to do that which in fairness ought to be done.