The state Superior Court has revived a man’s efforts to claim the life-insurance benefits of his former same-sex domestic partner.

A three-judge panel of the court in Estate of Stephen T. Gallagher reversed a lower court decision, which had ruled that Stephen T. Gallagher’s former domestic partner was not entitled to the life-insurance benefits because he was not able to prove he was designated as the beneficiary.

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