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Parties Involved:
Basham Funeral Care
Defendant
Brian Beechie
Defendant
Debra Beechie
Defendant
Paul Ceccato
Defendant
Primerica Life Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Danielle Webster
Defendant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PRIMERICA LIFE INSURANCE

COMPANY,

Plaintiff-in -Interpleader,

vs.

DEBRA BEECHIE, an individual, BRIAN

BEECHIE, an individual, DANIELLE

WEBSTER, an individual, PAUL

CECCATO, an individual, BASHAM

FUNERAL CARE, a business entity of

unknown form and Does 1 through 10,

defendants.

CASE NO.: 1:09-cv-01729-AWI-JLT

Hon. Anthony W. Ishii

 ORDER GRANTING

STIPULATION

FOR:

(1) DISTRIBUTION OF

INTERPLEADED FUNDS;

(2) DISCHARGE AND DISMISSAL

WITH PREJUDICE;

(3) AWARD OF ATTORNEYS’ FEES

AND COSTS TO PRIMERICA

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN

THE AMOUNT OF $8,272.05;

AND

(4) PERMANENT INJUNCTION

Having considered the Stipulation of Plaintiff-in-Interpleader, Primerica Life

Insurance Company, formerly known as Massachusetts Indemnity and Life

Insurance Company (“Primerica”) (“Primerica”), and Defendants-in-Interpleader

Debra Beechie, Paul Ceccato, Brian Beechie, Danielle Webster, and Basham Funeral

Care, (“Defendants-in-Interpleader”), the Court orders as follows:

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1. That Primerica and its agents are discharged of all liability with

respect to the life insurance policy issued by Primerica to Bruce Beechie (the

“Deceased”) providing a death benefit of $200,000, policy number 0413161875 (the

“Policy”) and out of which the above-referenced interpleader action arises;

2. That Defendants-in-Interpleader and each of them, their agents,

attorneys or assigns, are enjoined perpetually, restraining each of them, their agents,

attorneys or assigns, from instituting any suit at law or equity, or action of any kind

whatsoever, against Primerica, and its agents, with respect to the Policy and/or the

proceeds of the Policy;

3. That Primerica is dismissed from this action with prejudice as to all

claims relating to the Policy benefits and the Policy issued to the Deceased insuring

the life of the Deceased;

4. That Primerica will be awarded its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs

in the amount of $8,272.05, which Primerica was forced to incur in bringing its

interpleader action, and which amount is to be paid from Policy proceeds currently

on deposit with this Court in the amount of $205,612.99 (death benefit plus interest);

5. That, pursuant to the settlement agreement reached among Debra

Beechie, Paul Ceccato, Brian Beechie, and Danielle Webster, Danielle Webster will

receive $20,000 of the Policy proceeds currently on deposit with the Court registry;

6. That, pursuant to the aforementioned settlement agreement, Brian

Beechie will receive $20,000 of the Policy proceeds currently on deposit with the

Court registry;

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7. That, pursuant to the aforementioned settlement agreement, Paul

Cecatto disclaims any and all right, title, claim or interest in the Policy at issue in

this interpleader action and in the Policy proceeds currently on deposit with the

Court;

8. That, pursuant to the aforementioned settlement agreement, Basham

Funeral Care will receive $1,196.44 of the Policy proceeds currently on deposit with

the Court registry;

9. That, pursuant to the aforementioned settlement agreement, the law

firm of Barger & Wolen will receive $8,272.05 of the Policy proceeds currently on

deposit with the Court registry;

10. That the remaining Policy proceeds currently on deposit with the

Court registry in the amount of $156,144.50 will be paid by way of joint check to

Debra Beechie and her attorneys, McCartney & Associates; and

11. That the payments from the Policy proceeds will be sent as follows:

Primerica Life Insurance Company

c/o Karen Denvir, Esq. with Barger & Wolen,LLP

633 West Fifth Street, 47th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

Debra Beechie, and McCartney & Associates

N. Thomas McCartney

1601 F Street

Bakersfield CA 93301

Danielle Webster

2450 E Del Mar Blvd. #15

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Pasadena CA 91107

Brian Beechie

P. O. Box 13651

Palm Desert CA 92255

Basham Family Funeral Services Incorporated

3312 Niles Street

Bakersfield CA 93306

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 22, 2010 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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