Morris v. United States
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**Morris v. United States**
Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Filed: 2026-05-18T00:00:00-07:00
URL: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10860723/morris-v-united-states/
Metropolitan Life, 225 F.3d at 513. In Metropolitan Life, the sister of a deceased individual brought a third-party negligence claim against the United States pursuant to the FTCA, asserting that she was unable to recover on her brother’s life insurance policy , of which she was the named beneficiary, because a federal personnel clerk had failed to preserve a signed original copy of the deceased’s beneficiary form. Id. at 512. We held the “focal point” of the alleged tort was not the failure to communicate
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