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Nature of Suit Code: 385
Nature of Suit: Property Damage - Product Liabilty
Cause of Action: 28:1446 Petition for Removal- Property Damage (P.I.)

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{00007741.DOC} 

REQUEST FOR ALTERNATE APPEARANCE AT SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND ORDER [PROPOSED] 

SHELDON J. WARREN, No. 096668 

LAW OFFICES OF SHELDON J. WARREN, 

a Professional Law Corporation 

P. O. Box 30220 

Long Beach, California 90853 

Telephone: 562.433.9688 

Facsimile: 562.433.9711 

Attorneys for Defendants 

INTERMATIC INCORPORATED and COMBS 

DEVELOPMENT, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

INTERMATIC, INC., ENERGY 

HOUSE, and DOES 1 through 25, 

Defendants. 

NO. 1: 06-CV-01127-LJO-DLB 

[Action Filed 07/17/2006] 

[DENNIS L. BECK, U.S. MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE] 

REQUEST FOR ALTERNATE 

APPEARANCE AT SETTLEMENT 

CONFERENCE AND ORDER [PROPOSED]

TRIAL DATE: OCTOBER 22, 2007 

COMES NOW defendant INTERMATIC INCORPORATED 

(“INTERMATIC”) and respectfully requests that the Court allow it, by the 

accompanying proposed Order, to have its third-party administrator for product 

liability claims, Mr. Robert McDonnell of McLarens Young International in Glen 

Ellyn, Illinois, appear as its representative at the Settlement Conference scheduled 

for June 12, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. Mr. McDonnell is the individual solely responsible 

for handling claims of this type on INTERMATIC’s behalf, as well as managing its 

self insured retention (SIR). He has full and complete authority to negotiate and, if 

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REQUEST FOR ALTERNATE APPEARANCE AT SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE AND ORDER [PROPOSED] 

appropriate, settle cases on INTERMATIC’s behalf on any terms he deems 

appropriate. 

This request is made to avoid the necessity of INTERMATIC having 

to bring a second individual to Fresno from out of state and incurring the significant 

expense related thereto. 

Dated: June 5, 2007 

LAW OFFICES OF SHELDON J. WARREN 

By /s/ 

SHELDON J. WARREN 

Attorneys for Defendants 

INTERMATIC INCORPORATED and COMBS 

DEVELOPMENT, INC. 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, it is so ordered. 

DATED: June 8, 2007 ___/s/ Dennis L. Beck______________ 

THE HONORABLE DENNIS L. BECK 

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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