JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INS. CO. v. WILSON

Docket Nos. 00-9525, 00-9505.

254 F.3d 48 (2001)

JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Signator Investors, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Joseph A. WILSON, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Susan Alecca, Michael J. Alecca, Warren Neals, Eileen M. Attello, Joseph Attello, Eunice Byczek, Joseph Byczek, Margaret Noll, Antoinette McNerlin, James McNerlin, Angeline Simpson, Frank Simpson, Laura Brown, Consolidated-Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 18, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Hurteau, Albany, N.Y. (Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Nixon Peabody, Albany, NY, Katherine C. Lake, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal and Banker, Tampa, FL, of counsel), for Appellants.

Kalju Nekvasil, Clearwater, FL (Goodman & Nekvasil, Clearwater, FL, of counsel), for Appellees.

Before MESKILL, PARKER and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.


Judge KATZMANN concurs in a separate opinion.

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs John Hancock Life Insurance Co. and Signator Investors, Inc. (collectively, "John Hancock") appeal an order and judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, McAvoy, J., granting defendants' motion to compel arbitration, denying defendants' motion to stay the action pending arbitration and dismissing the complaint and counterclaims...

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