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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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81988951v1 -1- STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DISMISSING ACTION WITH PREJUDICE

SEDGWICK LLP

MARK J. HANCOCK Bar No. 160662

mark.hancock@sedgwicklaw.com

REBECCA A. HULL Bar No. 99802

rebecca.hull@sedgwicklaw.com

333 Bush Street, 30th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104-2834

Telephone: 415.781.7900

Facsimile: 415.781.2635

Attorneys for Defendants

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY and THE KAISER PERMANENTE 

FLEXIBLE BENEFITS PLAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

REGINA SMITH, an Individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, 

INC., in its capacity as Plan Administrator and 

fiduciary of the Kaiser Permanente Flexible 

Benefits Plan, and METROPOLITAN LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, in its capacity as 

ERISA-fiduciary claims administrator and 

insurer of the Kaiser Permanente Flexible 

Benefits Plan, and THE KAISER 

PERMANENTE FLEXIBLE BENEFITS 

PLAN, an ERISA-regulated Welfare Plan,

Defendants.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER DISMISSING ACTION WITH 

PREJUDICE 

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81988951v1 -2- STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DISMISSING ACTION WITH PREJUDICE

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and among the parties to this action through their 

designated counsel that the above-captioned action be and hereby is dismissed with prejudice 

pursuant to FRCP 41(a)(1). Each party to bear its own attorneys' fees and costs.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: September 11, 2015 CREITZ & SEREBIN LLP

By: /s/ Joseph Creitz

Joseph Creitz 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

REGINA SMITH 

DATED: September 11, 2015 SEYFARTH SHAW LLP

By: /s/ Michelle Scannell

Michelle Scannell

Attorneys for Defendant

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

DATED: September 11, 2015 SEDGWICK LLP

By: /s/ Mark J. Hancock

Mark J. Hancock

Attorneys for Defendants

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 

THE KAISER PERMANENTE FLEXIBLE BENEFITS 

PLAN

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81988951v1 -3- STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER DISMISSING ACTION WITH PREJUDICE

ATTESTATION

Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has 

been obtained from counsel for Plaintiff and counsel for Defendant Kaiser Foundation Health 

Plan, Inc.

DATED: September 11, 2015 SEDGWICK LLP

By: /s/ Mark J. Hancock

Mark J. Hancock

Attorneys for Defendants

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 

THE KAISER PERMANENTE FLEXIBLE BENEFITS 

PLAN

ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, pursuant to the parties' stipulation, the present action is 

dismissed in its entirety with prejudice. Each party to bear its own fees and costs.

DATED: ________________

By: 

HONORABLE LAUREL BEELER 

September 11, 2015

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