Pitt
Pitt v. Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 SUSAN A. PITT, Individually, as Case No. 20-cv-00694-BAS-DEB Successor-In-Interest to MICHAEL A. PITT, Decedent, on Behalf of the Estate ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S of MICHAEL A. PITT, and on Behalf MOTION TO STAY of the Class, [ECF No. 10] Plaintiff, v.
METROPOLITAN TOWER LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
14 Defendant. 15 Plaintiff Susan Pitt (“Plaintiff”) brings this putative class action lawsuit against Metropolitan Tower Life Ins. Co. (MetLife) claiming that it violated various California insurance statutes (Calif. Ins. C. §§10113.71 and 10113.72) (“the Statutes”) that came into effect January 1, 2013, when it terminated life insurance policies without proper notice. (Compl., ECF No. 1.) The success of the lawsuit largely depends on the application of the Statutes to life insurance policies originally issued before January 1, 2013 outside California. This has been a hotly contested issue in both the California state and federal courts. Several cases addressing this…