( March 20, 2025, 1:19 PM EDT) -- GRETNA, La. — A split Louisiana appellate court panel on March 19 affirmed in part a lower court order requiring a life insurer to pay a policy beneficiary $50,000, the face value of a life insurance policy, finding that the lower court did not err in its determination that the insurer failed to show that the decedent “made material misrepresentations with an intent to deceive” in the policy application....