Man sued over life insurance payout after murder-suicide

BATON ROUGE - A lawsuit claims a Baton Rouge man improperly collected a $500,000 payout from his business partner's life insurance policy after the partner gunned down his estranged wife and shot and killed himself in Connecticut last year.The federal lawsuit, filed Friday, says Billy Wayne Newman illegally replaced his wife, Lauren Beebe, as the policy's beneficiary with his business partner, Todd Hines, less than two weeks before Newman killed her and himself.The suit says Hines filed a claim