Schmidt

Filed 1/13/15 Certified for publication 2/4/15 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

INVESTORS EQUITY LIFE HOLDING

COMPANY,

G048284

Plaintiff and Appellant, (Super. Ct. No. 30-2009-00119128) v.

OPINION

JEFFREY P. SCHMIDT et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Nancy Wieben Stock, Judge. Reversed and remanded. Request for Judicial Notice denied. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Joseph K. Hegedus and Caroline E. Chan; and Parker Shumaker & Mills, David B. Parker and Theodore W. Frank, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Daley & Heft and Lee H. Roistacher; Locke Lord, C. Guerry Collins and Michelle C. Ferrara; and Lewis Roca Rothgerber, Frank D. O’Loughlin and Cindy C. Oliver, for Defendants and Respondents. Plaintiff Investors Equity Life Holding Company appeals from the judgment dismissing this case on the ground of forum non conveniens. Plaintiff filed its complaint in 2009, and the trial court originally ordered the action stayed on the ground of forum non conveniens. Plaintiff appealed that order and we affirmed in a published decision. (Investors…