Legal Question in Insurance Law in Nevada

With the deceased gone you would have to come up with proof that he meant to change the beneficiary on the policy you are talking about. It has to be more than a "he said, she said" scenario. If there is proof you can file a claim against the agent company's errors and omissions policy.

Under Nevada law, an insurance agency that undertakes to procure insurance for another owes an obligation to its client to use reasonable diligence in attempting to place the insurance and to seasonably notify the client if it, the insurance agency, is unable to obtain the insurance.

Your attorney can explain further.

The intentions of the policy holder will have to be established by more than just a pattern of other policies being changed. If you (or anyone) can produce a copy of a letter to the insurance agent listing the policies and specifically demanding that the beneficiary be changed on all of them, that would more clearly demonstrate that the slip-up was on the part of the agent, and not by the policy owner. A court will likely presume that since he changed the beneficiary on several policies, he obviously knew how to accomplish it, so if one policy was not changed, he must have intended such.

This entire matter will turn on the sufficiency of the evidence, and without any evidence to the contrary, it will be presumed under the law that the language in the policy expressed the policy holder's intent.