WEIL INS. AGENCY v. MANUFACTURERS LIFE INS.

No. C 91-3113 SC.

815 F.Supp. 1320 (1992)

WEIL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., a California corporation, doing business as Jerry C. Weil & Associates v. The MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

As Amended Upon Stipulation, January 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Crew, Townsend & Townsend Khourie & Crew, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff Weil Ins. Agency Inc.

H. Joseph Escher, III, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Mfrs. Life Ins. Co.

Natasha Lovas, Adams Duque & Hazeltine, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Alexander Hamilton Life Ins. Co. of America.

Peter E. Davis, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

Richard J. Kilmartin, Knight Boland & Riordan, San Francisco, CA, for defendant New York Life Ins. Co.

James J. Garrett, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Transamerica Occidental Life Ins. Co.

Frank Gooch, III, Gilchrist & Rutter, P.C., Santa Monica, CA, for defendant First Colony Life Ins. Co.

James D. Biernat, James D. Biernat Law Offices, Foster City, CA, for defendant Safeco Life Ins. Co.

Raoul D. Kennedy, Crosby Heafey Roach & May, Oakland, CA, for defendant United Pacific Ins. Co.

Robert H. King, Jr., Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Allstate Life Ins. Co.

Shand Stephens, Bronson Bronson & McKinnon, San Francisco, CA, for defendant America Intern. Life Assur. Co. of New York.

Robert M. Mitchell, Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Prudential Ins. Co. of America.

Robert M. Dell, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Integrity Life Ins. Co.

Dale E. Fredericks, Darryl M. Woo, Laura L. Goodman, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, San Francisco, CA, for defendants Ringler Ins. Agency, Ringler Associates Pacific, Inc., Ringler Associates Sacramento, Inc., Ringler Associates San Francisco, Inc., Ringler Associates Bay Area, Inc., Ringler Associates Inc., and Robert S. Bell.

Jack M. O'Brien, O'Brien Hammond Conway, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Kenneth H. Wells & Associates Inc.

Mark LeHocky, Weld Freeland Cooper & LeHocky, San Francisco, CA, for defendant ML Settlement Services, Inc.

Jon C. Cederberg, Musick Peeler & Garrett, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant Structured Settlements Co.

Heather D. Rafter, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Gakaher Settlements and Ins. Service Co., Inc.

Peter I. Ostroff, Sidley & Austin, Los Angeles, CA, Elroy H. Wolff, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, for defendant National Structured Settlements Trade.


ORDER RE SUMMARY JUDGMENT

CONTI, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Weil Insurance Agency, Inc. ("Weil") was in the business of providing consulting services to tort plaintiffs on the costs of structured settlements. Defendants in this case are mainly brokers and life insurance companies who are involved in the structured settlement industry. Weil alleges that it was driven out of the industry by defendants' "defense only" policy...

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