Opinion
No. 3:01-1352.
January 2, 2002
ORDER
Pending before this Court is Defendant American General Life Insurance Company's "Motion for Reconsideration of this Court's Order to Remand and Motion for Oral Argument" (Doc. No. 21). The Court finds no conflict between its December 5, 2001 Order (Doc. No. 18), and its Order inManners v. Am. Gen. Life Ins. Co., No. 3-98-0266, (Dec. 15, 1998). This case does not implicate the Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures contemplated by Manners, which explicitly applies to only class members, and this Court has already held that this case does not implicateManners. Thus, the Court does not deprive the Manners parties of the benefit of their bargained-for settlement. This Court will continue to uphold the terms of the Manners settlement, consistent with this Court's prior Order. However, as this Court already found, not every case involving American General Insurance policies for the relevant time period implicates Manners. Equity does not require this Court to reconsider its earlier Order, and this Court reaffirms its Order to Remand this case to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia.
Because Court finds the instant Motion without merit, the Motion is hereby DENIED.
It is so ORDERED.