FRANZE v. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE

No. 01-11575.

296 F.3d 1250 (2002)

Frank FRANZE, George Busher, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE, Equitable Variable Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy S. Leavitt, Lewis F. Murphy, Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, FL, Courtney E. Scott, Michael. L. Hirschfeld, Jeffrey Barist, David R. Gelfand, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants.

Lauren S. Dadario, C. Oliver Burt, III, Berman, DeValerio & Pease, West Palm Beach, FL, Alan D. Lash, Lash & Goldberg, LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before ANDERSON, DUBINA and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.


DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal from a district court's grant of class certification. Frank Franze, Jr. ("Franze") and George Busher ("Busher") sued Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and Equitable Variable Life Insurance Company (jointly referred to as "Equitable") for securities fraud in their sale of Variable Life Insurance ("VLI") policies. The district court granted a motion for class certification, and, pursuant to Federal...

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