Wayne Gugel v. Pacific Life Insurance Company

UNPUBLISHED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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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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