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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

 Jay A. Morrow, D.D.S., 

Plaintiff, 

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 Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co., et al.,

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No. CIV 06-2635-PHX-SMM

ORDER

To expedite the flow of discovery material, facilitate the prompt resolution of

disputes over confidentiality, protect adequately material claimed by the parties to be

confidential, and ensure that protection is afforded only to material so designated,

pursuant to the Court’s authority under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c) and the parties’ Stipulation

to Protective Order (Dkt. 58), it is hereby ORDERED:

1. Confidential Information. This order shall govern documents produced or

exchanged that are stamped or otherwise marked with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL –

SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” and falling into the following categories:

a) Information disclosing the identity, address, telephone number, social

security number, policy number, medical information or information protected from

disclosure by the NAIC model regulations or any applicable laws for any prospective,

current or former owner or insured under any insurance policy issued by Boston Mutual

Life Insurance Company (hereinafter “Boston Mutual”) and/or administered by Disability

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Reinsurance Management Services, Inc. (hereinafter “DRMS”).

b) Information disclosing the identity, address, telephone number, social

security number, employment information, medical information, or information protected

from disclosure by the NAIC model regulations or any applicable laws for any Defendant

or current or former employee or agent of any Defendant.

c) Information disclosing Boston Mutual’s underwriting policies, claims 

handling policies, computer systems, or practices with respect to any insurance issued

under a policy form sold by Boston Mutual.

d) Information disclosing DRMS’ underwriting policies, claims handling 

policies, computer systems, pricing determinations, reinsurance relationships, and

agreements with customers, including, but not limited to, Boston Mutual.

e) Information disclosing Boston Mutual’s costs or pricing determinations 

with respect to any insurance issued under a policy form sold by Boston Mutual.

f) Medical information concerning Plaintiff, his family members, or any

other party or witness in this case. 

g) Subject to the provisions of this subsection g), any other information

designated by a party as “CONFIDENTIAL – SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.”

If a party designates information as confidential that does not fall within the categories

articulated in a)–f), above, any party who disagrees with the designation, or any part of it,

shall have twenty (20) days from the date of disclosure of the information in question to

advise the disclosing party of the objection in writing. In the event of any such objection,

the party disclosing the information claimed to be confidential shall have twenty (20)

days from the date of objection to move the Court for an Order designating the

information confidential and subject to the terms of this Order. Unless otherwise

stipulated, the failure of a disclosing party to move for an Order designating information

confidential within twenty (20) days from the date of objection shall constitute a waiver

of the right to designate the information as being confidential. During the period for

raising objections, as well the period that any motion to designate the information

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confidential is pending, the parties will treat the information as if it were confidential

under the terms of this Order.

2. Scope of Confidential Designation. The special treatment accorded to

documents designated confidential under this Order shall reach:

a) Subject to Section 14, below, all information previously or hereafter

designated confidential;

b) All copies, extracts, and complete or partial summaries prepared from

confidential information;

c) Any deposition transcript or exhibit, or portion thereof, that discusses

or refers to such information, copies, extracts or summaries; and

d) Any portion of any discovery answer or response, affidavit,

declaration, brief, or other paper filed with the Court, or exhibit thereto, that discusses or

refers to such information, copies, extracts or summaries.

e) Nothing in this Order shall be construed as abrogating any objection

by any party to the discovery or admissibility of any information.

f) Nothing in this Order shall be construed as limiting the use or

disclosure of any information obtained by a party from a source other than the party

designating it as confidential.

g) Operate as an admission by any party that any particular document or

information is, or is not, confidential;

3. Permissible Disclosure of Confidential Information. Except with prior

written consent of all parties and nonparties asserting confidential treatment, and except

as provided elsewhere in this Order, information designated confidential, and all

information contained therein or derived therefrom, may not be disclosed to any person

other than:

a) The parties to this litigation;

b) Counsel of record for the parties in this action;

c) Secretaries, paralegal assistants, and other employees of such counsel

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who are assisting in the prosecution and/or defense of this action;

d) Actual or potential deposition or trial witnesses in this action, to the

extent reasonably necessary to prepare the witness to testify concerning this case. Subject

to the exception in subsection e), immediately below, disclosure of confidential

information shall not be made to any witness who is or has been employed by or

associated with any competitor or customer of Defendants unless the confidential

information in question was created by, seen by or copied to said witness.

e) Outside consultants and experts solely retained for the purpose of

assisting counsel and the parties in the prosecution and/or defense of this action; and

f) Any person designated by the Court in the interests of justice, upon

such terms as the Court may deem proper.

“Disclosure” is intended to be interpreted broadly, and means copying (including

handwritten copies), exhibiting, showing, describing, allowing access to, or otherwise

releasing to any person the confidential information subject to this Order, except as

expressly authorized by this Order.

4. Review of Party’s Own Confidential Information. The restrictions of this

Order shall not apply to parties or nonparties, and their employees, attorneys, experts or

other authorized agents, when reviewing their own confidential information.

5. Certification of Compliance. Except for persons identified in subparagraphs

3(a)-(c) above, no person authorized under the terms of this Order to receive access to

confidential information shall be granted access to it until such person has read this Order

and agreed in writing to be bound by it. Such written agreement must contain (a) a recital

that the signatory has read and understands this order; (b) a recital that the signatory

understands that unauthorized disclosures of confidential information constitute contempt

of court; and (c) a statement that the signatory consents to the exercise of personal

jurisdiction by this Court. Upon order of this Court, for good cause shown, these written

agreements shall be available for inspection by counsel for other parties or nonparties.

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6. Responsibility of Attorneys. The attorneys of record are responsible for

employing reasonable measures, consistent with this Order, to control duplication of,

access to, preservation of, and distribution of confidential information. It shall be the

obligation of counsel, upon hearing of any breach or threatened breach of this Order by

any person, promptly to notify counsel for the opposing and producing parties of such

breach or threatened breach.

7. Use of Confidential Information at Depositions. Any confidential

information marked as deposition exhibits shall be sealed separately from the remainder

of the deposition transcript and exhibits. When a party uses or refers to confidential

information at a deposition, the portion of the deposition transcript that relates to such

information shall be stamped confidential and sealed separately from the remainder of the

transcript, and shall be treated as confidential under the provisions of this Order.

8. Designating Portions of Deposition Transcripts Confidential. For

information encompassed by one or more of subparagraphs 1(a) – 1(f), above, any party

or nonparty may, within twenty (20) days after receiving a deposition transcript, designate

portions of the transcript, or exhibits thereto, as being confidential. At deposition, the

parties will attempt in good faith to preliminarily identify and designate confidential

testimony and exhibits without prejudice to their right to so designate other testimony or

exhibits or withdraw such designation after receipt of the transcript. Confidential

deposition testimony or exhibits may be so designated by stamping the exhibits

confidential, or by underlining the portions of the pages that are confidential and

stamping such pages confidential. Until expiration of the 20-day period, the entire

deposition transcript, and all exhibits thereto, will be treated as confidential under the

provisions of this Order. If no party or nonparty timely designates testimony or exhibits

from a deposition as being confidential, none of the deposition testimony or exhibits will

be treated as confidential. If a timely confidential designation is made, the confidential

portions and exhibits shall be sealed separately from the portions and exhibits not so

marked, and shall be treated as confidential under the provisions of this Order.

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Information not encompassed by one or more of subsections 1(a)–(f), above, may be

designated as confidential information subject to the procedures in subparagraph 1(g),

above.

9. Use of Confidential Information in Papers Filed With the Court.

Documents designated confidential, and all information contained therein or derived

therefrom, may be discussed or referred to in pleadings, motions, affidavits, briefs and

other papers filed with the Court, or attached as exhibits thereto, provided that such

confidential documents and information, and any portion of any paper filed with the

Court that discusses or refers to them, are stamped confidential and separately filed under

seal with the Clerk of the Court.

10. Use of Confidential Information in Court. Documents designated

confidential, and all information contained therein or derived therefrom, may be used or

offered in evidence at the trial of this case, or at any court hearing in this litigation,

provided that they are submitted in accordance with paragraph 9, supra, or that:

a) Reasonable advance notice is given to permit the designating party or

nonparty to seek additional protections or relief from the Court if desired; and

b) The confidential information, and any portion of any transcript or

court paper where it is discussed or referred to, is stamped “confidential” and separately

filed under seal with the Clerk of Court.

11. Litigation Use Only. Subject to Section 2 f), above, all confidential

information produced in this litigation, whether by a party or nonparty, and whether

pursuant to Federal Civil Rule 34, subpoena, agreement, or otherwise, and all confidential

information derived therefrom, shall be used solely for the preparation and trial of this

action (including any appeals and retrials), and may not be used for any other purpose,

including business, governmental or commercial, or any other administrative or judicial

proceedings or actions.

12. Non-Termination and Return of Documents. The provisions of this

Order shall continue to apply to all confidential information after this action has been

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terminated. Upon termination of this action, including all appeals, the parties shall return

all confidential information to the producing party, as well as all copies, extracts and

summaries thereof, except that counsel for each party may maintain in its files one copy

of each pleading or other paper filed with the Court. Alternatively, the parties and/or any

producing party may agree upon appropriate methods of destruction. Nothing in this

subsection shall be construed as requiring the return or destruction of information

obtained by a party from a source other than a party claiming the information is

confidential.

13. Subpoena By Other Courts Or Agencies. If another court or an

administrative agency subpoenas or orders production of confidential information that a

party has obtained under the terms of this Order, such party shall promptly notify the

party who designated the information as confidential of the service of such subpoena or

order, and provide that party with sufficient time in which to object.

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14. Interim Protection. Confidential information produced by any party or

nonparty through discovery in this action within 40 days prior to the entry of this Order

by the Court shall be subject to the provisions of this Order to the same extent as if the

Order had been entered by the Court, unless the Court otherwise directs.

DATED this 18th day of October, 2007.

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