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Nature of Suit Code: 130
Nature of Suit: Miller Act
Cause of Action: 28:1352 Miller Act

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION FOR DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND RELATED 

TRAINING, INC.’S CLAIMS AGAINST CNA SURETY AND WESTERN SURETY COMPANY

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for 

the use and benefit of:

SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND 

RELATED TRAINING, INC., a 

California corporation,

 Use-Plaintiff,

v.

CNA SURETY, a Delaware 

corporation; WESTERN SURETY 

COMPANY, a South Dakota 

corporation; SUPERIOR FIRE INC., a 

California corporation; MOHAMED 

SIFELDIN, an individual; RANDALL 

ANDERSON, an individual;

AMERICAN CONTRACTORS 

INDEMNITY COMPANY, a California

corporation; and DOES 1 through 20, 

inclusive,

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Case No: 18-CV-2054-GPC-JLB

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION 

FOR DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE 

OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND 

RELATED TRAINING, INC.’S 

CLAIMS AGAINST CNA SURETY 

AND WESTERN SURETY COMPANY

Judge: Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel

Courtroom: 2D

Magistrate Judge: Jill L. Burkhardt

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ATALA ECR INC.

 

 Counter-Claimant,

vs.

SUPERIOR FIRE INC., a California 

corporation; and ROES 1 through 20, 

inclusive,

 Counter-Defendants.

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The Court, having considered the STIPULATION FOR DISMISSAL WITH 

PREJUDICE OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND RELATED TRAINING, 

INC.’S CLAIMS AGAINST CNA SURETY AND WESTERN SURETY 

COMPANY, and GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, hereby grants the Stipulation. 

THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows:

1. Use-Plaintiff Safety Management and Related Training, Inc. (“SMART”)

and Defendant Western Surety Company (“Western Surety”) have entered into a 

settlement, whereby Western Surety has paid SMART to resolve its claims against 

Defendant Superior Fire, Inc. (“SFI”), for non-payment involving the construction 

projects identified in SMART’s First Amended Complaint as: 1) the Naval Medical 

Center, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA 92134 (the “NMC Project”); 2) the 

Marine Corps Logistics Base, Buildings 232, 571, and 579, Barstow, CA 92311 (the 

“Barstow Project”); 3) Building 475 Coronado Avenue, Naval Air Station North 

Island, Coronado, CA 92135 (the “Coronado Project”); and 4) Dyer Road, Bldg. 

245, 246, 255 Watkins Hall & ME Lecture Hall, Naval Postgraduate School, 10 

Monterey, California 93940 (the “Monterey Project”) (collectively Western Surety’s 

Bonded Projects”).

2. SMART’s claims asserted against SFI in its First Amended Complaint for 

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non-payment involving other construction projects are excluded from the stipulation 

and dismissal, including Projects identified in the First Amended Complaint as the 

In House Projects, the VAFB Building 75 Project, and the VAFB Building 475 

Project.

3. SMART assigned to Western Surety its legal and equitable right to seek 

payment from SFI for the labor and materials it furnished on Western Surety’s 

Bonded Projects. Accordingly, any claim that SMART has against SFI for nonpayment on these construction projects will survive the dismissal of SFI from this 

action.

4. SMART’s claims, remedies and causes of action alleged in this lawsuit 

against Defendants Western Surety and CNA Surety are dismissed with prejudice.

5. SMART’s claims, remedies and causes of action alleged in this lawsuit 

against Defendant Superior Fire, Inc. involving Western Surety’s Bonded Projects 

are dismissed without prejudice. 

6. Each party to the Stipulation will bear their own fees and costs with respect 

to the other Parties to the Stipulation.

Dated: April 17, 2019

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