Stacey Simmons v. Allstate Life Insurance Company and Maurice Cole

MARTHA CRAIG DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

This diversity action was brought by the plaintiff-appellant, Stacey Simmons, in an attempt to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy allegedly in effect at the time of death of the insured, Simmons’s fiance, John Journe. The district court granted the motion for summary judgment filed by Allstate Life Insurance Company and also dismissed the complaint against Maurice Cole, an Allstate agent, for lack of in personam jurisdiction. On appeal, Simmons alleges that the court did in fact have jurisdiction over the person of Cole and that Cole’s…