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                                           UNPUBLISHED

                             UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                 FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                             No. 23-1073

        WAYNE GUGEL,

                           Plaintiff - Appellant,

                    and

        DOLORES STEGELIN; ANNE H. RACK,

                           Plaintiffs,

                    v.

        PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,

                           Defendant - Appellee,

                    and

        SHURWEST, LLC,

                           Defendant.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at
        Columbia. Bruce H. Hendricks, District Judge. (3:21-cv-01444-BHH)

        Submitted: November 21, 2023                               Decided: January 18, 2024

        Before NIEMEYER and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit
        Judge.
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        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Robert Rikard, Jeremy C. Hodges, RIKARD & PROTOPAPAS, LLC,
        Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. J. D. Quattlebaum, Jonathan D. Klett,
        HAYNSWORTH SINKLER BOYD, P.A., Greenville, South Carolina; Todd M. Fuller,
        CARLTON FIELDS, P.A., Miami, Florida, for Appellee.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Wayne Gugel appeals the district court’s orders granting Pacific Life Insurance

        Company’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion to dismiss Gugel’s South Carolina law claims for

        aiding and abetting the breach of a fiduciary duty and negligent misrepresentation and

        denying Gugel’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(b) motions. We have

        reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s

        orders. Gugel v. Pac. Life Ins. Co.., No. 3:21-cv-01444-BHH (D.S.C. Mar. 18, 2022 &

        Dec. 21, 2022). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions

        are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the

        decisional process.

                                                                                        AFFIRMED

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