Brown v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

ORDER

EDENFIELD, Chief Judge.

I. Background

On 4/3/95, Plaintiff Hugh F. Brown commenced this State law fraud action in the Superior Court of Bulloch County (Ga.) against Defendants The Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”), a New Jersey corporation, and Cardell Dyches, a licensed Prudential insurance agent domiciled in Georgia.

More than eighteen months later, a federal district court presiding over a class action involving Prudential’s sales practices stayed this and all other matters “unless and until such Policyholder has timely excluded himself ... from the Class.” Mot. To…