Insurance companies sue Chappaqua man over slain wife's death benefits

Two coverage companies have got got filed lawsuits against A Chappaqua adult male who is trying to accumulate more than than a half-million dollars on his slain wife's life insurance.

The lawsuits pending in state and federal tribunal in White Person Plains state disbarred lawyer Carlos Perez-Olivo have not been ruled out as a suspect in the violent death of his wife, Peggy Hallway Perez-Olivo, a twelvemonth ago this week.

New Palace police force have not made an apprehension in the violent death of the female parent of three, who was shot in the caput in the couple's Mitsubishi Montero during what her hubby said was a late nighttime onslaught by an unknown region gunslinger on a quiet stretch of Path 100 in Millwood.

Carlos Perez-Olivo, 59, suffered a gunfire lesion to the venter in the attack.

The lawsuit drew national mass media attending because the couple lived a few doors away from Bill and Edmund Hillary Rodham Clinton. It gripped the community because it was the first murder in old age in the normally calm town.

Police declined to notice yesterday on the civil lawsuits or the probe into the killing.

"There is nil new to notice on in the case," said Lt. Marc Simmons of the New Palace police. " When there is, we'll publish a fourth estate release."

A lawyer for Carlos Perez-Olivo said yesterday that his client continued to keep his artlessness in the case.

"Anyone who knew them knew Peggy was the centre of his life," lawyer Henry Martin Robert Buckley said.

The lawsuits inquire state and federal Judges to make up one's mind who should acquire $517,000 in life coverage benefits owed to the dead woman's beneficiaries.

In the state lawsuit filed in July, Sun Life Insurance Co. states Carlos Perez-Olivo have got got set in a claim for $50,000 in life coverage from his wife's occupation as a instruction helper for the Chappaqua Central School District.

In document filed in state Supreme Court, the coverage company said it is a "longstanding rule of New House Of York law that a offender may not net income from his or her wrong."

The lawsuit travels on to say, "If it is determined Carlos Perez-Olivo was involved in the decease of Peggy Perez-Olivo, then he would be disqualified from receiving the policy proceeds."

But the coverage company states it is making no claim or accusal that Perez-Olivo was involved in his wife's death.

In the federal lawsuit filed this month, Capital Of Connecticut Life Insurance Co. states Perez-Olivo filed claims on two life coverage policies totaling $467,000 a small more than than a calendar calendar month after his wife's decease last year.

If Perez-Olivo is "convicted of deliberate homicide, he could not retrieve the return of the policies," the lawsuit said.

A spokesman for Capital Of Connecticut Insurance said in a statement that New Palace police force force force had not ruled Perez-Olivo out as a suspect.

Spokesman Saint David Potter said these types of lawsuits, called interpleaders, are "often filed when, as in this case, it is ill-defined as to whom the benefits should be paid."

Buckley said New Palace police have a policy of not opinion anyone out as suspects in unfastened cases.

New Palace police have remained tight-lipped astir the probe since Nov. 20, 2006, when they announced the shooting, which occurred Nov. 18.

Peggy Hallway Perez-Olivo died Nov. 19. At the time, Simmons said police force force were treating Carlos Perez-Olivo arsenic a victim, but said his business relationship of the shot was "unusual sounding."

Perez-Olivo told police that he and his married woman were returning from dinner in New House Of York City when another auto cut them off. He said one of the other car's residents entered the dorsum place of the couple's auto and shot his married woman in the caput without saying a word. He told police force a battle ensued and that he was shot in the abdomen.

Perez-Olivo's lawyer said it was his client who asked the coverage companies to register the lawsuits.

"The lawsuits have got been filed astatine the petition of Mr. Olivo so that the tribunal can direct that the finances be released as the coverage companies wish such as direction," Buckley said.

Perez-Olivo means to register document in response to the lawsuits asking the Judges to present him the money.

"We'll inquire the tribunal to pay it to the designated donee because he's not accused of anything," Buckley said.

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