MUTUAL BEN. LIFE INS. CO. v. ZIMMERMAN

Civ. A. No. 91-1945 (AJL).

783 F.Supp. 853 (1992)

MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE, COMPANY, Beneficial Life Insurance Company, General American Life Insurance Company, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (USA), New York Life Insurance Company, Oxford Life Insurance Company and Standard Insurance Company, Plaintiffs, v. George G. ZIMMERMAN, George G. Zimmerman & Company, Inc., William J. Flynn, Wm. J. Flynn Associates, Inc., Paul J. Bargnesi, Samuel C. Corey, and Consultants & Administrators, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

January 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Sheehy, Kenneth L. Miller, Rogers & Wells, New York City, and Marc S. Friedman, Friedman Siegelbaum, Roseland, N.J., for All American Life Ins. Co.

Gerald A. Liloia, Peter C. Harvey, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, N.J., for George G. Zimmerman & Co., Inc., George G. Zimmerman and Hartford Line Slip, Inc., formerly known as Zimmerman Line Slip, Inc.

Hugh P. Francis, Francis & Berry, Morristown, N.J., for William P. Flynn and William J. Flynn & Associates, Inc.

Mark F. Hughes, Jr., Robinson, St. John & Wayne, Newark, N.J., for Consultants & Administrators, Inc., Samuel C. Corey and Paul J. Bargnesi.

Richard K. Willard, Richard H. Porter, John F. Kostyack, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., and Robert E. Bartkus, Pinto, Rodgers & Kopf, Morristown, N.J., for Mut. Ben. Life Ins. Co., Beneficial Life Ins. Co., General American Life Ins. Co., The Mfrs. Life Ins. Co. (USA), New York Life Ins. Co., Oxford Life Ins. Co., and Standard Ins. Co.

Michael E. Donovan, Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, P.A., Newark, N.J., for Integrated Resources Life Ins. Co.

Richard M. Eittreim, McCarter & English, Newark, N.J., for Provident Mut. Ins. Co. of Philadelphia.

Reid Evers, Transamerica Occidental Life Ins. Co., Los Angeles, Cal., and Donald Horowitz, Hackensack, N.J., for Transamerica Occidental Life Ins. Co.

Robert A. Knuti, Lord, Bissel & Brook, Chicago, Ill., and William B. McGuire, Tompkins, McGuire & Wachenfeld, Newark, N.J., for Sec. Ben. Life Ins. Co.


OPINION

LECHNER, District Judge.

This is a consolidated action (the "Consolidated Action") of four actions, the first, (the "All American Action"), brought by plaintiff All American Life Insurance Company ("All American") against Beneficial Life Insurance Company ("Beneficial"), General American Life Insurance Company ("American Life"), Maine Fidelity Life Insurance Company ("Maine Fidelity"), Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company ("Mutual"), Oxford...

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