IN RE INDUSTRIAL LIFE INS. LITIGATION

No. Civ.A. MDL 1371.

148 F.Supp.2d 719 (2001)

In re INDUSTRIAL LIFE INSURANCE LITIGATION.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

June 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob F. Wright, Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, Donald Burnham Ensenat, Locke, Liddell & Sapp, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for John Bratcher, plaintiff.

Stephen H. Kupperman, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Joel S. Feldman, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL, for Monumental Life Insurance Company, defendant.

Stephen H. Kupperman, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Joel S. Feldman, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL,, Andrew J. Mytelka, Greer, Herz & Adams, Galveston, TX, for American National Life Insurance Company, defendant.

R. Patrick Vance, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, Stephen H. Kupperman, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Joel S. Feldman, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL, William B. Hill, Jr., Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, GA, for Life Insurance Company of Georgia, defendant.

Harold C. Hirshman, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for Unitrin Inc., defendant.

William Joseph Hamlin, Bordelon, Hamlin & Theriot, New Orleans, LA, for Security Industrial Life Insurance Company, defendant.

Raymond Joseph Salassi, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, for Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, defendant.


ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

Before the Court is defendant American National's Motion to Challenge Jurisdiction. For the reasons that follow, the motion is DENIED without prejudice as being premature.

Background

In this MDL proceeding, the plaintiffs assert that for decades the defendant, American National Insurance Company has discriminated against blacks and other minorities in the sale and administration of...

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