Roth

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JONI M. ROTH, 2:24-cv-01124-TLN-CKD Plaintiff, v.

ORDER

AIG; COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL, INC., Defendants.

16 A motion for sanctions (ECF No. 17) by defendant American General Life Insurance Company (sued as Corebridge Financial, Inc.) is before the court. Plaintiff opposed the motion and defendant filed a reply. (ECF Nos. 17, 18.) The parties appeared via videoconference for a hearing on January 15, 2025. Richard Bowles appeared for plaintiff and John T. Burnite appeared for defendant. For the reasons set forth below, the motion for sanctions is denied. I. Background Plaintiff Joni Roth initiated this action with a complaint filed in the Placer County Superior Court on January 26, 2024. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1141 and 1146, defendant removed the case to this court on April 15, 2024. (ECF No. 1.) This lawsuit involves an annuity which plaintiff alleges she found in a box of her late father’s documents in January of 2022. (ECF No. 1 at 9.) Under the…