( June 27, 2025, 9:37 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A life insurer’s filing of a third-party interpleader complaint does not absolve it of liability for a beneficiary’s breach of contract and bad faith claims based on the life insurer’s delay in handling the beneficiary’s claim after the insured’s death, a California federal judge said in partially denying the life insurer’s motion for summary judgment....