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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ALLSTATE NORTHBROOK INDEMNITY COMPANY, No. 2:24-cv-00560-TLN-JDP 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. 14 TRINH TRAN, an individual; and STEVE ORDER 15 LIERLY, an individual, 16 Defendants. 17 18 This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Allstate Northbrook Indemnity Company’s 19 (“Plaintiff”) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. (ECF No. 23.) Defendants Trinh Tran 20 (“Tran”) and Steve Lierly (“Lierly”) (collectively, “Defendants”) filed an opposition. (ECF No. 21 25.) Plaintiff filed a reply. (ECF No. 27.) For the reasons set forth below, Plaintiff’s motion is 22 GRANTED. 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 1 I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 2 In November 2019, Defendants were involved in an auto accident. (ECF No. 12 at 6.) At 3 the time of the accident, Lierly had an insurance policy with Plaintiff which had a bodily injury 4 liability limit of $250,000 per person. (Id.) In April 2020 and again in April 2021, Tran made 5 offers to settle for the policy’s limit. (Id. at 6–7, 10.) …