Can a plaintiff sue an attorney who failed to provide an irrevocable beneficiary on his life insurance policy?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Call v. Kezirian, 135 Cal.App.3d 189, 185 Cal.Rptr. 103 (Cal. App. 1982):

Respondent analogizes to the case of McGee v. Weinberg (1979) 97 Cal.App.3d 798, 159 Cal.Rptr. 86, where a former wife sued her attorney for malpractice, alleging that the attorney failed to provide that her [135 Cal.App.3d 197] former husband make her an irrevocable beneficiary on his life insurance policy.

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