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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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1 GALTON &HELMLLP

DANIEL W. MAGUIRE, State Bar No. 120002

2 EDITH S. SHEA, State Bar No. 177578

500 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1200

3 Los Angeles, California 90071-2624

Telephone: (213) 629-8800

4 Facsimile: (213) 629-0037

E-Mail: dmaguire(Ggaltonhelm.com

5 E-Mail: eshea(fgartonhelm.com

6 Attorneys for Defendant and Cross-complainant The Guardian Life Insurance

Company of America

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8 UNTED STATES DISTRICT COURT

9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

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11 VICKIE D. GORGONE, CASE NO. C 05-01087 SI

STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED)

ORDER

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Plaintiff,

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COMPANY OF AMERICA,

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Defendant.

17 THE GUARIAN LIFE INSURNCE

COMPANY OF AMERICA,

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Cross-Complainant,

vs.

VICKIE D. GORGONE,

Cross- Defendant.

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5217/92280.1 Case No. C 05-01087 SI

STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER

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1 Plaintiff Vickie D. Gorgone ("Gorgone") and Defendant and Cross2 Complainant The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America ("Guardian")

3 hereby stipulate and request a continuance of the motion hearing date currently

4 scheduled in this case. For the reasons set forth below, the parties submit that good

5 cause exists for the continuance requested.

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7 This action is governed by ERISA and arises from an employee benefit plan,

8 which is funded in part by a policy issued by Guardian which provides certain health

9 insurance benefits. The Court has scheduled a motion hearing date of March 3.

10 2006. Based on that hearing date, the parties' motions for summary judgment would

11 have to be filed no later than January 24. 2006.

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13 The dispute between the parties arises from the denial of certain claims

14 submitted by Gorgone for treatment rendered in 2002 and 2003. The parties had a

15 mediation on December 5,2005 and discovered during the mediation that there are

16 additional claims arising from treatment rendered in 2003 which are not part of the

17 administrative record. The parties therefore request that the Court extend the

18 motion hearing date in this case by one hundred and twenty days to allow sufficient

19 time to have the administrator consider the additional claims and to augment the

20 administrative record to include those claims, if they are denied.

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22 This continuance would allow the parties to include all disputed claims in the

23 administrative record and to obtain a final resolution of this matter, by having the

24 Court render a decision as to whether the administrator's decision on all ofPlaintifts

25 claims should be upheld or overtrned. (Plaintiff is no longer employed by the

26 policyholder, so a resolution after the continuance and augmentation of the

27 administrative record w:ould constitute a final resolution of all disputes between the

28 parties relating to this coverage.)

5217 1 92280.. 2 Case No. C 05-01087 SI

STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED) ORDER

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1 Wherefore. the parties request that the motion hearng date of March 3,2006

2 be continued (0 June 30, 2006. One prior tWo week. continuace was requested to

3 accommoWWie the schedulin of a mediation and that cominuance was grantcd.

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5 DATED: Janua~~ 2006

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JEN. JENNY & JENN

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Anomeys for Defendant and Cross- coniplain t Th Guadian Life Insurace

Company of America

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18 I IT is ORDERE thai the motion hearing date of March 3, 2006 be continued

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Susan Illston

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