Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Dysart

GÓMEZ, Chief Judge

MEMORANDUM OPINION

(December 1, 2008)

Before the Court is the motion of the defendant Robert L. Dysart (“Dysart”) to transfer this matter to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). For the reasons stated below, the Court will deny the motion.

*813I. FACTS

In 1990, Dysart obtained a disability insurance policy from Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln”). At the time he obtained the insurance, Dysart was a senior partner at a “boutique” insurance and tort litigation firm in Phoenix, Arizona.

In 1997, Dysart filed a…