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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1961 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS SECOND AMENDED

COMPLAINT—No. C-05-04726 RMW 

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-FILED on 8/8/07

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

In re CONSECO INSURANCE CO.

ANNUITY MARKETING & SALES

PRACTICES LITIG.,

This document relates to:

ALL ACTIONS

No. C-05-04726 RMW

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT'S

MOTION TO DISMISS SECOND

AMENDED COMPLAINT

[Re Docket No. 88]

Defendant Conseco Insurance Company ("CIC") moves to dismiss all causes of action in the

second amended complaint. The parties appeared for oral argument before the court on August 3,

2007. After considering the papers and argument of counsel, the court denies CIC's motion to

dismiss except as to plaintiff's sixth claim for breach of fiduciary duty and seventh claim for aiding

and abetting breach of fiduciary duty. Although the second amended complaint alleges, inter alia,

that defendants trained individual sales agents to target senior citizens by publicizing financial and

estate planning services at seminars and community service events for the elderly, SAC ¶¶ 26, 28,

plaintiff's allegations do not establish how the defendants are responsible for any fiduciary duty that

may exist between plaintiff and Zehner. Further, the court does not find that the statement set forth

in CIC's marketing materials welcoming plaintiff to the annuity is alone sufficient to establish a

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fiduciary duty directly between plaintiff and the defendants. Claims six and seven are dismissed

with leave to amend. Plaintiff shall have 20 days from the date of this order to amend his complaint.

DATED: 8/7/07

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS SECOND AMENDED

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiffs:

Andrew S. Friedman afriedman@bffb.com 

Elaine A. Ryan 

Howard D. Finkelstein fk@classactionlaw.com 

John J. Stoia, Jr. jstoia@lerachlaw.com 

Michael D Thamer 

Patricia N. Syverson 

Phong L. Tran ptran@lerachlaw.com 

Rachel Lynn Jensen rachelj@lerachlaw.com 

Steven M. Jodlowski sjodlowski@lerachlaw.com 

Theodore Joseph Pintar TedP@lerachlaw.com 

Ingrid M. Evans ievans@publiclawgroup.com 

Stephen R. Basser sbasser@barrack.com

Christa L. Collins 

J. Andrew Meyer 

John A. Yanchunis 

Louise H. Renne 

Helen I. Zeldes helenz@lerachlaw.com 

Counsel for Defendant:

James J Dries James.J.Dries@bakernet.com 

Mark L Karasik Mark.L.Karasik@bakernet.com 

Thomas A. Doyle Thomas.A.Doyle@bakernet.com 

Heather B. Hoesterey hhoesterey@reedsmith.com 

Linda B. Oliver LOliver@ReedSmith.com 

Robert D. Phillips, Jr. RPhillips@ReedSmith.com 

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 8/8/07 /s/ MAG

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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