LANEY v. AMERICAN EQUITY INV. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 800CV1071T30EAJ.

243 F.Supp.2d 1347 (2003)

Ersell A. LANEY, individually and as Trustee of the Ersell A. Laney Trust, et al., Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN EQUITY INVESTMENT LIFE INS. CO., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Tampa Division.

January 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ray Newcomer, Jr., John Allen Yanchunis, Sr., Kathleen Clark Ford, James, Hoyer, Newcomer, & Smiljanich, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Ersell A. Laney, Alice E. Laney.

Robert Eli Vaughn, Jr., Butler Pappas Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, Tampa, FL, James Beckett Thompson, James B. Thompson, Jr., Thompson, Goodis, Thompson, Groseclose & Richardson, P.A., St. Petersburg, FL, Timothy J. Walker, Whitfield & Eddy, Des Moines, I A, for American Equity Investment Life Ins. Co.

Lewis F. Murphy, Barbara Bolton Litten, Steel, Hector & Davis, West Palm Beach, FL, Lewis F. Murphy, Traci H. Rollins, Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, Miami, FL, for Golden American Life Ins. Co.

Louis J. LaCava, Stephens, Lynn, Klein, La Cava, Hoffman, Tampa, FL, Joseph H. Lowe, Gary Khutorsky, Stephens, Lynn, Klein, La Cava, Hoffman, Miami, FL, R. Marshall Rainey, Williams, Schifino, Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, FL, Andrew B. David, Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Chicago, IL, Stephens Lynn Klein, Law Office of Stephens Lynn Klein, Miami, IL, for First Variable Life Ins. Co.

R. Marshall Rainey, Williams, Schifino, Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, FL, Michael W. Thrall, Nyemaster, Good, Voigts, West, Hansell, O'Brien, P.C., Des Moines, IA, for USG Annuity and Life Co.

Audrey B. Rauchway, Law Office of Audrey Rauchway, St. Petersburg Beach, FL, Laura Anne Olson, David C. Bearden, Olson & Bearden, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Richard W. Desimone.

Jorge Santeiro, Ogden & Sullivan, P.A., Tampa, FL, Timon V. Sullivan, Ogden & Sullivan, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Sun Life Assur. Co. of Canada.

John R. Bello, Jr., Gibbons, Cohn, Neuman, Bello, Segall & Allen, Tampa, FL, Pamela G. Matthews, Tyler Gates Mercer, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., San Antonio, TX, for Hartford Life/Ann.

Richard Allen Gilbert, Patrick Joseph McNamara, De La Parte & Gilbert, P.A., Tampa, FL, Anthony J. Durone, Kathleen M. Nemecheck, Berkowitz, Stanton, Brandt, Williams & Shaw, LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Birchtree Financial Services, Inc.

Charles Franklin Ketchey, Jr., Wesley D. Tibbals, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Tampa, FL, R. Michael Underwood, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, Reza M. Bidgoli, Aragon Financial Services, Inc., Brea, CA, for Aragon Financial Services, Inc.


ORDER

MOODY, District Judge.

Before the Court is Defendant Richard W. Desimone's Motion for Summary Judgment and Memorandum of law (Dkt.# 229) and Motion to Strike Affidavit of John L. Lyman and for an Award of Attorneys' Fees (Dkt.# 243). Plaintiffs filed responses in opposition to each motion (Dkts.#240, 245). In addition, Plaintiff filed a Motion for Entry of a Default Judgment against defendant Aragon Financial Services,' Inc. ("Aragon")

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