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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT 

FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF 

WORTHE HANSON & WORTHE 

A Law Corporation 

JOHN R. HANSON, SB# 149794 

 E-Mail: jhanson@whwlawcorp.com 

1851 East First Street, Ninth Floor 

Santa Ana, California 92705 

Telephone: 714.285.9600 

Facsimile: 714.285.9700

LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

REBECCA R. WEINREICH, SB# 155684 

 E-Mail: Rebecca.Weinreich@lewisbrisbois.com 

STEPHEN V. KOVARIK, SB# 184656 

 E-Mail: Stephen.Kovarik@lewisbrisbois.com 

633 West 5th Street, Suite 4000 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: 213.250.1800 

Facsimile: 213.250.7900 

Attorneys for Defendants AMERICAN 

NATIONAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY 

COMPANY, AEROSPACE INSURANCE 

MANAGERS, INC., AND AEROSPACE 

INSURANCE SERVICES 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WILLIAM G. CAVANAUGH,

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

AMERICAN NATIONAL PROPERTY AND 

CASUALTY COMPANY, AEROSPACE 

INSURANCE MANAGERS, INC., 

AEROSPACE INSURANCE SERVICES, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 1:15-CV-01177-TLN-SKO

JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND 

PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO 

(1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY 

COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND 

DISCOVERY CUT OFF 

Honorable Troy L. Nunley 

 

 Plaintiff William G. Cavanaugh (“Cavanaugh”) and defendants American National 

Property and Casualty Company (“American National”), Aerospace Insurance Managers, Inc., and 

Aerospace Insurance Services (“defendants”), through their respective counsel, stipulate as 

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follows: 

1. Cavanaugh filed the present action on or about July 29, 2015, alleging three cause 

of action: (a) to collect on a judgment entered in underlying litigation against its insured, Bill 

Coulter (“Coulter”); (b) breach of contract as an assignee of Coulter’s rights under the American 

National Airport Liability Insurance Policy at issue in this action based on defendants’ alleged 

failure to defend, settle and indemnify Coulter in connection with the underlying action; and (c) 

breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (bad faith) based upon defendants’ 

conduct after Cavanaugh became a third party beneficiary of the insurance contract. 

2. The underlying liability action sought damages for personal injuries sustained by 

Cavanaugh when a helicopter he was piloting crashed as a result of the alleged negligence of 

Coulter. A tender by Cavanaugh was denied. Cavanaugh obtained a judgment against Coulter 

and an assignment of Coulter’s rights against his carrier. Defendants refused to pay the judgment 

and the present action followed. 

3. On February 1, 2016, this Court entered a Pretrial Scheduling Order. As of that 

date, the order cut off the joinder of parties and amendment of pleadings without leave of court. 

The Pretrial Scheduling Order also set the discovery cut off on February 2, 2017 and trial on 

January 22, 2018. 

4. On December 2, 2016, American National filed a motion for leave to amend the 

Pretrial Scheduling Order to (1) permit the filing and service of a third-party complaint against 

Cavanaugh and Coulter seeking to reform that policy to reflect what it alleges is the mutual 

understanding of the contracting parties that coverage is afforded for “Airport Operations”, and (2) 

adjust the deadlines set forth in the Pretrial Scheduling Order to allow additional time for 

Cavanaugh and Coulter to address the reformation claim. 

5. As set forth in detail by the motion to amend and the supporting declarations of 

Warren J. Mueller and John R. Hanson, subsequent to the entry of the Pretrial Scheduling Order, 

American National learned of what it contends is a scrivener’s error in its policy, which plaintiff 

contends renders coverage illusory. 

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6 So as to avoid unnecessarily burdening the Court and to allow for the efficient 

resolution of this action without the need to incur unnecessary expenses, the parties stipulate, 

subject to approval of the Court, that: 

a. American National’s motion to amend the Pretrial Scheduling Order be 

GRANTED for good cause shown. 

b. The Pretrial Scheduling Order entered on February 1, 2016, is modified to 

allow the filing of American National’s proposed Third-Party Complaint for 

Reformation of Insurance Policy (“Third-Party Complaint”), a copy of 

which is attached hereto as Appendix A. 

c. The Third-Party Complaint is deemed filed as of the date this stipulation is 

“So Ordered” by the Court. Plaintiff shall have the normal period of time to 

respond to the Third-Party Complaint after it is served on plaintiff’s 

counsel. 

d. The following deadlines set forth in Section IV of the Pretrial Scheduling 

Order are modified: 

 Non Expert Discovery Cut-off: March 31, 2017 

 Expert Disclosure: May 19, 2017. Supplemental experts are to be 

 disclosed within 20 days after this date. 

 All other dates in the Scheduling Order remain the same. 

e. Any depositions of American National taken pursuant to Rule 36(b)(6) of 

 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will be held at a location in San 

 Francisco that is mutually agreeable to the parties. 

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DATED: December 21, 2016 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

 By: /s/ Stephen V. Kovarik 

 Rebecca R. Weinreich 

Stephen V. Kovarik 

Attorneys for Defendants American National 

Property and Casualty Company, Aerospace 

Insurance Managers, Inc., Aerospace Insurance 

Services 

DATED: December 21, 2016 MANNION & LOWE 

 By: 

/s/ E. Gerard Mannion 

(as authorized on Dec. 21, 2016) 

 E. Gerard Mannion 

Demian I. Oksenendler 

Attorneys for Plaintiff William G. Cavanaugh 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: December 27, 2016 

 

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