Whittle
Whittle v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DAWN WHITTLE, Case No. 21-cv-0386-BAS-WVG
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING JOINT
v. MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF No. 19)
UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF AMERICA,
15 Defendant.
17 Before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to dismiss this action with prejudice 18 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (“Rule”) 41(a)(2). (Mot., ECF No. 19.) 19 Plaintiff Dawn Whittle brought this action against Defendant Unum Life Insurance 20 Company of America on March 4, 2021 seeking disability benefits under the Employee 21 Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001, et. seq. (Compl., 22 ECF No. 1.) Defendant answered the Complaint on April 30, 2021, denying the legal 23 claims against it. (ECF No. 6.) On December 8, 2021, the parties jointly moved to dismiss 24 this action in its entirety with prejudice. (Mot. 1.) 25 “Except as provided in Rule 41(a)(1), an action may be dismissed at the plaintiff’s 26 request only by court order, on…