An obscure dispute over life insurance could breathe new life into a long-neglected constitutional safeguard for economic freedom. In 1998, Mark Sveen named Kaye Melin, then his wife, primary beneficiary of an insurance policy. The couple divorced almost a decade later, and Sveen died in 2011. He hadn’t changed his policy, but in 2002 Minnesota had passed a law automatically removing a spouse as a life-insurance beneficiary if the couple divorces. Sveen’s children claim to be the rightful beneficiaries.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 18, 2018 18:11 UTC