Gooch v. Life Investors Insurance

MEMORANDUM

WILLIAM J. HAYES, JR., District Judge.

Plaintiff, Anthony E. Gooch, filed this action under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, the federal diversity statute individually and on behalf of other similarly situated individuals against the Defendants: Life Investors Insurance Company (“Life Investors”) and Aegon USA, Incorporated (“Aegon”). Plaintiffs claims arise from the Defendants’ reduction in the amount of benefits under his insurance contract, a Cancer Only Policy with Life Investors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aegon. Plaintiff asserts claims for breach of contract, breach of implied duty of good…