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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE No. 2:19-cv-00801-KJM-EFB

COMPANY,

12 Plaintiff, ORDER v. 14 MIKE DIAL, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 On May 6, 2019, New York Life Insurance Company filed a complaint in interpleader to determine the rightful beneficiary of the life insurance policy proceeds of Eugene Lawlor, who passed away May 17, 2018. Compl., ECF No. 1. Lawlor, a former priest based in Sacramento, California, initially designated defendant Mike Dial, a parishioner, as his sole beneficiary. Compl., Ex. A at 8; Mot., ECF No. 10-1, at 3. Later, however, Lawlor appeared to express a desire to change the beneficiary to St. Mary’s Cemetery in Sacramento or to Eddy G. Buvert, an officer of St. Mary’s Cemetery. Mot. at 3. New York Life Insurance served St. Mary’s Cemetery and Eddy G. Buvert in this action. Id., Exs. B, C. After unsuccessful attempts to locate Dial, New York Life Insurance now requests an order permitting service of the summons and complaint by…