Hamer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division ANTHONY S. HAMER, Case No. 22-cv-06886-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. TRANSFER VENUE

JP MORGAN CHASE LONG-TERM Re: ECF Nos. 19, 26 DISABILITY BENEFIT PLAN, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION This is an employee-benefits dispute over the long-term disability benefits that were paid to Kenneth Morrison, a deceased former Vice President of JP Morgan Chase. Mr. Morrison, who worked in New York City and lived in Connecticut, became permanently disabled when he was struck by a taxi in 1995. From then until his 2022 death, he was paid benefits under Chase’s long- term disability plan for its employees. Plaintiff Anthony Hamer, who now lives in San Francisco, was Mr. Morrison’s supervisor at Chase and is the successor trustee of Mr. Morrison’s trust and the co-conservator of his estate. Mr. Hamer alleges that the defendants — the JP Morgan Chase, 25…