Brown
Brown v. American General Life Insurance Company
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 DEBRA ANN BROWN, Case No. 22-cv-02465-JD
10 Plaintiff,
ORDER RE SUMMARY JUDGMENT
v. 11
12 AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
13 Defendant.
14 15 Pro se plaintiff Debra Brown sued defendant American General Life Insurance Company 16 for allegedly allowing fraudulent loans to be drawn in her name on a whole life insurance policy 17 she owned. Brown originally filed her case in California state court, and American General 18 removed it to this Court on diversity jurisdiction. See Dkt. No. 1. American General represented 19 in a brief to the Court that the insurance policy provided $10,000 in coverage. Dkt. No. 29-1 at 2. 20 The removal petition alleges that four small loans in amounts under $100 were taken against the 21 policy in 2005 and 2009. Dkt. No. 1 at 3. Brown’s complaint stated a single cause of action under 22 the California Identity Theft Act (CITA), Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.92, et seq., to cancel collection 23 and payment of the loans, and to obtain civil penalties.1 24