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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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Stephen A. Weisbrod (pro hac vice)

sweisbrod@wmclaw.com

August J. Matteis, Jr. (pro hac vice)

amatteis@wmclaw.com

WEISBROD MATTEIS & COPLEY PLLC

1200 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Suite 600

Washington, DC 20036.

Telephone: 202-499-7900

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Carl C. Scherz (pro hac vice) 

cscherz@lockelord.com

James H. Bilton (pro hac vice) 

jbilton@lockelord.com

LOCKE LORD LLP

2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2200

Dallas, Texas 75200

Telephone: 214-740-8000

Regina J. McClendon (SBN 184669)

rmcclendon@lockelord.com

Stephanie A. Chambers-Wraight (SBN 261025)

swraight@lockelord.com

LOCKE LORD LLP

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 4100

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: 415-318-8810

Fax: 415-676-5816

Attorneys for Non-Party

Wilton Reassurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE CONSECO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

LIFETREND INSURANCE SALES AND 

MARKETING LITIGATION,

WILLIAM JEFFREY BURNETT and JOE H. 

CAMP, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

CONSECO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., 

an Indiana corporation, 

Defendant.

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CASE NO. 3:10-MD-2124 SI (EDL)

Case No. 3:12-cv-05906 SI (EDL)

(Proposed) ORDER REGARDING 

PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS 

AND NON-WAIVER OF 

PRIVILEGES 

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WHEREAS, Plaintiffs served a non-party Subpoena to Produce Documents on Non-Party 

Wilton Reassurance Company (“Wilton Re”) seeking production of documents at Wilton Re’s 

offices in Wilton, Connecticut (the “Subpoena,” Docket No. 611-2).

WHEREAS, Wilton Re timely served objections and responses to each of Plaintiffs’ requests 

(the “Objections to Subpoena,” Docket No. 611-3).

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed their Motion to Compel Production of Documents Pursuant to 

Subpoena Served on Wilton Reassurance Company (the “Motion to Compel”) (Docket No. 611) 

and, thereafter, Wilton Re filed its Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel (Docket No. 617) and 

Plaintiffs filed a Reply in Support of Their Motion to Compel (Docket No. 624).

WHEREAS, a hearing was held and the Court entered an Order addressing Plaintiffs’ Motion 

to Compel (“Order on Motion to Compel,” Docket No. 633), which among other things ordered 

Plaintiffs and Wilton Re to confer regarding electronic searches.

WHEREAS, during the discovery process subsequent to the Order on Motion to Compel, 

Wilton Re has conducted searches of e-mails and provided Plaintiffs with a privilege log(s) and the 

parties have conferred regarding a possible resolution.

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs contend that each of the documents listed in Wilton Re’s log(s) is not 

privileged at all or are not privileged in part.

WHEREAS, to address mutual concerns by the parties, to assist in the resolution of discovery 

disputes, and to avoid additional expenditure of the judicial resources of this Court, Plaintiffs and 

Wilton Re have moved for the entry of this Order Regarding Production of Documents and NonWaiver of Privileges, which provides for and permits the production of documents or redacted 

portions of documents by Wilton Re, Conseco Life Insurance Company (“CLIC”), CNO Financial 

Group, Inc., and CNO Services, LLC, expressly subject to the protections afforded herein and by 

Federal Rule of Evidence 502.

It is, therefore, ORDERED that Wilton Re, CLIC, CNO Financial Group, Inc., and CNO 

Services, LLC may produce to Plaintiffs complete copies of documents, or redacted copies of 

documents, referenced in their privilege logs in order to resolve discovery disputes and advance 

discovery. It is further ORDERED that any production to Plaintiffs on or after March 3, 2015, 

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whether partial or complete, by CNO Financial Group, Inc., CNO Services, LLC, CLIC and/or 

Wilton Re of (a) the documents referenced in Wilton Re’s privilege log(s), including but not limited 

to WRPRIV000001-WRPRIV000010, WRPRIV000011-WRPRIV000052, WRPRIV000055-

WRPRIV000135, WRPRIV000141-WRPRIV260 and WRPRIV000262-WRPRIV000336, and (b) 

any other documents or communications exchanged between Wilton Re, on the one hand, and CNO 

Financial Group, Inc., CNO Services, LLC (together, the “CNO Entities”) and/or CLIC, or the 

counsel or representatives for any of those entities, pursuant to, in anticipation of, or otherwise in 

any way related to the Stock Purchase Agreement of 2014 (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”), its 

schedules and attachments, and/or drafts of the aforementioned items (together, the “Documents”), 

shall not be construed as a waiver of, or used as the basis for any claim or allegation or argument by 

Plaintiffs or anyone else that Wilton Re, CLIC, CNO Financial Group, Inc., and/or the CNO Entities 

waived the attorney-client privilege, the work product privilege, the joint defense privilege, the 

common interest doctrine or the community of interest rule, or other privilege. For the avoidance of 

any doubt, this includes and prohibits any claim by Plaintiffs or others that the production of 

documents by Wilton Re or CLIC completely or partially waive any privilege or protection, with 

respect to or arising from any information referenced or otherwise contained within the documents 

produced. For the further avoidance of doubt, this protection against waiver applies to this 

proceeding as well as any other Federal or State proceedings.

It is further ORDERED that Wilton Re, CLIC and the CNO Entities may reserve all rights, 

arguments and defenses as to the privileged nature of any documents produced in accordance with 

this Order and that, except as set forth above, Plaintiffs may reserve all rights, arguments and 

defenses as to the privileged nature of any documents produced in accordance with this Order, and, 

specifically, that Plaintiffs reserve, and do not waive, all rights to assert that any applicable privilege 

or protection has been waived for reasons other than the production of documents in accordance with 

this Order. Except as set forth in the preceding paragraphs of this Order, the Court expresses no 

view at this time on the rights, arguments and defenses reserved in this paragraph by the Parties.

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Dated: ______________, 2015

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HON. ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 March 9

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