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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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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES 2800

THOMAS M. JONES (Pro Hac Vice)

CHARLES E. WHEELER (SBN 82915)

AMANDA M. LORENZ (SBN 264336)

COZEN O’CONNOR

501 West Broadway, Suite 1610

San Diego, CA 92101

Telephone: (619) 234-1700

Facsimile: (619) 234-7831

tjones@cozen.com

cwheeler@cozen.com

alorenz@cozen.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE COMPANY

JOHN S. PIERCE (SBN 074908)

DAVID J. MCMAHON (SBN 120891)

PETER J. FELSENFELD (SBN 260433)

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP

One California Street

18th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 362-6000

Facsimile: (415) 834-9070

jpierce@mail.hinshawlaw.com

dmcmahon@mail.hinshawlaw.com

pfelsenfeld@mail.hinshawlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

NAVIGATORS SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY

ALLEN RUBY (SBN 47109)

RAOUL D. KENNEDY (SBN 40892)

JAMES P. SCHAEFER (SBN 250417)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER &

FLOM LLP

525 University Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Telephone: (650) 470-4500

Facsimile: (650) 470-4570

Allen.Ruby@skadden.com

Raoul.Kennedy@skadden.com

James.Schaefer@skadden.com

Attorneys for Defendant/Third Party Plaintiff

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.

RONALD P. SCHILLER (Pro hac vice)

SHARON F. MCKEE (Pro hac vice)

JACQUELINE R. DUNGEE (Pro hac vice)

HANGLEY ARONCHICK SEGAL PUDLIN

& SCHILLER

One Logan Square, 27th Floor

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Telephone: (215) 568-6200

Facsimile: (215) 568-0300

Email: rschiller@hangley.com

smckee@hangley.com

jdungee@hangley.com

Attorneys for Third Party Defendant

IRONSHORE SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE

COMPANY, an Illinois corporation

Plaintiff,

v.

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC., a

Delaware corporation,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 3:13-cv-04863-JST

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

EXTENDING COURT DATES

Judge: Honorable J. Tigar

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

NAVIGATORS SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY, a Delaware

corporation

Plaintiff,

v.

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC., a

Delaware corporation,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 3:13-cv-005801-JST

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC., a

Delaware corporation,

Cross-Complainant,

v.

IRONSHORE SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY, an Arizona

corporation,

Cross-Defendant..

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WHEREAS, plaintiff Illinois Union Insurance Company filed a complaint for rescission of

insurance policy against defendants Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (“Intuitive”) on October 21, 2013;

WHEREAS, plaintiff Navigators Specialty Insurance Company filed a complaint for

rescission of insurance policy against Intuitive on December 16, 2013;

WHEREAS, Intuitive filed a third party complaint against third party defendant Ironshore

Specialty Insurance Company (“Ironshore”) for breach of contract and bad faith on March 3, 2015

seeking over $15 million in damages;

WHEREAS, on March 19, 2015, before Ironshore had answered the third party complaint,

had an opportunity to fully develop its defenses and counterclaim or had obtained any discovery

from the parties, and before the parties anticipated the scope of discovery still to come the parties

filed a Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Extending Court Dates in Light of Impleader of Ironshore

Specialty Insurance and the Court entered an Order Amending Case Schedule containing the current

case dates and deadlines;

WHEREAS, Ironshore filed its answer and counterclaims on April 14, 2015;

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

WHEREAS, Ironshore’s counterclaims raise numerous, substantial coverage issues that

were not raised by Illinois Union or Navigators and that involve extensive discovery concerning the

approximately 1700 putative claims asserted by Intuitive;

WHEREAS, Ironshore served comprehensive interrogatories and document requests on

Intuitive on April 24, 2015, in an effort to complete fact discovery to support its defenses and

counterclaims by the October 15, 2015 deadline;

WHEREAS, some disputes have arisen among the parties on issues of confidentiality and

privilege that the parties cannot resolve without assistance of the Court due to the nature of these

issues and that, with respect to privilege, will necessitate in camera review;

WHEREAS, throughout the last several months the parties have been diligently working

together to schedule depositions before the close of discovery on October 15, 2015 and numerous

depositions have been completed in California, New York, Chicago and Massachusetts;

WHEREAS, there are several more depositions that need to be conducted and substantial

categories of documents that Intuitive has agreed to produce but not yet produced;

WHEREAS, while the parties have conducted extensive fact discovery, taken multiple

depositions, and produced a substantial amount of documents in an effort to meet the present

October 15, 2015 deadline for fact discovery;

WHEREAS, the parties agree that substantial discovery is still outstanding;

WHEREAS, the parties also continue to meet-and-confer regarding various discovery

disputes in an effort to obviate the need for Court intervention; and

WHEREAS, given the scope of discovery, the parties now recognize that the deadlines set in

March, 2015 have not proven realistic or workable in practice;

WHEREFORE, the parties herein stipulate as follows:

1. The parties stipulate to amend the calendar for this action as follows, subject to the

Court’s approval:

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

Event Current Date Proposed Date

Close of Fact Discovery October 15, 2015 January 15, 2016

Mediation Deadline December 16, 2015 February 16, 2016

Designation of Experts November 9, 2015 February 1, 2016

Expert Reports Due December 9, 2015 March 1, 2016

Deadline to File Dispositive Motions January 8, 2016 March 15, 2016

Designation of Rebuttal Experts January 12, 2016 April 1, 2016

Rebuttal Reports Due January 29, 2016 April 15, 2016

Close of Expert Discovery February 29, 2016 May 15, 2016

Pretrial Conference Statement Due May 31, 2016 May 31, 2016

Pretrial Conference June 10, 2016 June 10, 2016

Trial July 5, 2016 July 5, 2016

Estimate of trial length (in days) 10 10

2. The parties have maintained the current pre-trial and trial dates; however, the parties

are amenable to moving those dates if the Court prefers.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

Dated: September 11,_2015 /s/ Charles E. Wheeler____

Thomas M. Jones

Charles E. Wheeler

Amanda M. Lorenz

COZEN O’CONNOR

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE

COMPANY

Dated: September 11,_2015 /s/ John S. Pierce________

David J. McMahon

Peter Felsenfeld

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff

NAVIGATORS SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY

Dated: September 11,_2015 /s/ Raoul Kennedy______

Allen Ruby

Raoul Kennedy

James P. Schaefer

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER &

FLOM LLP

Attorneys for Defendant

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.

Dated: September 11,_2015 /s/Ronald P. Schiller

Ronald P. Schiller

Sharon F. McKee

Jacqueline R. Dungee

HANGLEY ARONCHICK SEGAL

PUDLIN & SCHILLER

GARY T. LAFAYETTE

APRIL P. SANTOS

LAFAYETTE & KUMAGAI LLP

101 Mission Street, Suite 600

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 357-4600

Facsimile: (415) 357-4605

glafayette@lkclaw.com

asantos@lkclaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IRONSHORE SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 15, 2015

By:________________________________

Hon. Jon S. Tigar

U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES

FILER’S ATTESTATION

I, Raoul D. Kennedy, am the ECF user whose identification and password are being used to

file this STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING COURT DATES. In

compliance with Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that all party signatories hereto concur in this

filing.

/s/ Raoul D. Kennedy

Raoul D. Kennedy

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