In Re Southwestern Life Insurance Sales Practices Litigation

TRANSFER ORDER

WILLIAM TERRELL HODGES, Chairman.

This litigation presently consists of three actions: two actions in the, Northern District of Mississippi, and one action in the Central District of California. 1 Before the Panel is a motion, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, by Southwestern Life Insurance Co. (Southwestern Life) to centralize these actions in the Northern District of Texas for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. All responding plaintiffs oppose centralization. If the Panel deems centralization appropriate, various plaintiffs suggest centralization in either the…