Cornish v. United States Life Insurance

ORDER

DAVE WHALIN, United States Magistrate Judge.

The parties in this ERISA action have consented pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 686(c) to proceed before the undersigned Magistrate Judge for all further proceedings in this case, to include the entry of a final judgment. The case itself arises from the death of Donna May Cornish. The late Ms. Cornish was discovered on Jan. 14, 2004, by her son, Executor Brinon Cornish, drowned in her home bathtub. Police who responded to the scene estimated that Ms. Cornish had been lying submerged in the bathtub for approximately a full day before her body was…