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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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Steven M. Shewry, Esq. (SBN 106333)

steve@shewrysaldanalaw.com

Christopher C. Saldaña, Esq. (SBN 269456)

chris@shewrysaldanalaw.com

SHEWRY & SALDAÑA, LLP

402 West Broadway, Suite 950

San Diego, California 92101-8504

Telephone: (619) 233-8824

Facsimile: (619) 233-1002

Attorneys for Defendant

INTERWEST INSURANCE SERVICES, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HEALTHSMART BENEFIT 

SOLUTIONS, INC., an Illinois 

corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

INTERWEST INSURANCE 

SERVICES, INC., a Florida 

corporation, and DOES 1 through 10,

Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:16-CV-00144-MCE-AC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO CONTINUE ALL 

CASE MANAGEMENT DATES 

AND FOR LEAVE TO FILE 

THIRD PARTY COMPLAINT

Judge: Morrison C. England, Jr.

Complaint Filed: January 22, 2016

To facilitate a meaningful mediation of this action, which currently is 

scheduled to occur on February 13, 2017 before Hon. William Cahill (Ret), and in 

order to save the parties’ resources from needless expenditure in the interim, and 

further, for purposes of judicial economy, Plaintiff HealthSmart Benefit Solutions, 

Inc. (“HealthSmart”) and Defendant InterWest Insurance Services, Inc. 

(“InterWest”) believe that a 90 day continuance of the case management 

conference (“CMC”) dates set forth in the Court’s June 22, 2016 Initial Scheduling 

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Order [Dkt #11] is both appropriate and needed.

This is the parties’ first and only request for a continuance of any dates in 

this matter, and it is made in good faith, immediately following the parties’ 

assiduous taking of sufficient preliminary discovery so as to properly inform the 

parties’ views as towards settlement.

Accordingly, HealthSmart and InterWest, through their attorneys of record, 

hereby jointly apply to the Court for a 90-day continuance of the CMC dates based 

upon the following stipulation:

1. The parties have agreed to mediate the dispute on February 13, 2017, 

before Hon. William Cahill, Ret., at JAMS in San Francisco (a date which has 

already been reserved with Judge Cahill’s assistant), or, should that date become 

unavailable, at a mutually convenient date in February 2017, or are soon thereafter 

as possible given the parties’ and mediator’s availability;

2. The parties consent to and agree that all remaining case management 

dates ordered by the Court’s June 22, 2016 Initial Scheduling Order [Dkt #11] may 

be extended by 90 days, as requested in InterWest in its Motion to Modify the 

Court’s Initial Scheduling Order [Dkt #16] currently set for hearing on January 12, 

2017;

3. The parties agree to stay all discovery until and through February 28,

2017; and

4. HealthSmart consents to and agrees not to oppose InterWest’s motion 

for leave to file a Third Party Complaint against Brown & Riding Insurance 

Services, Inc., and Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc., that is set for hearing on 

January 12, 2017.

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DATED: December 23, 2016 MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP

By: /s/ Andrew H. Struve

Andrew H. Struve, Esq.

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: December 23, 2016 SHEWRY & SALDAÑA, LLP

By: /s/ Steven M. Shewry

Steven M. Shewry, Esq.

 Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, all case management dates set forth in

the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order (ECF No. 11) are extended by 90 days, as 

requested by InterWest in its Motion to Modify the Court’s Initial Scheduling 

Order (ECF No. 16), and all discovery is stayed through February 28, 2017. 

In light of this stipulation and order, InterWest’s Motion to Modify the 

Court’s Scheduling Order is DENIED as moot, and the January 12, 2017 hearing 

on the matter is hereby vacated.

Further, upon review of InterWest’s Motion for Leave to File a Third Party 

Complaint and Memorandum of Points and Authorities in support thereof, and in 

light of HealthSmart’s consent and non-opposition thereto, InterWest’s motion is 

hereby GRANTED. Defendant is ordered to file its Third Party Complaint not 

later than 14 days from the date of this order. 

The January 12, 2017 hearing on the matter is also vacated.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 9, 2017

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