Valanga v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., District Judge.

This is a suit by a Russian beneficiary to recover the proceeds from a life insurance policy. Defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has not filed an answer to plaintiff’s complaint, but instead has presented a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, or, in the alternative, requests a stay of these proceedings pending the outcome of a prior state action begun by plaintiff involving the same insurance proceeds.

The insured, Andy Valanga, was the plaintiff’s deceased brother. Employed by a Pennsylvania steel spring…