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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Insurance Contract

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Burton C. Allyn, IV (SBN 96273) 

JOHNS & ALLYN 

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 

1010 B Street, Suite 350 

San Rafael, California 94901 

Telephone: (415) 459-5223 

Facsimile: (415) 453-2555 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

AIWA TROUTMAN 

Horace W. Green (SBN 115699) 

GREEN & HUMBERT 

220 Montgomery Street, Suite 438 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 837-5433 

Facsimile: (415) 837-0127 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF AMERICA and 

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND

LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AIWA TROUTMAN, 

Plaintiff,

v.

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF AMERICA, 

Defendant.

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Case No. C-04-0889 MMC 

STIPULATION TO SUBSTITUTE PROPER 

PARTY ; [proposed] ORDER

Plaintiff AIWA TROUTMAN, Defendant UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF AMERICA, and THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN 

(“The Plan”), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby submit the 

following Stipulation: 

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1. Defendant Unum Life Insurance Company may be dismissed from this 

action with prejudice. The purpose of said dismissal is to designate the correct 

defendant in the Action. Plaintiff does not concede that said dismissal makes Unum a 

prevailing party in the action. 

2. The Amended Complaint for ERISA benefit may be, and pursuant to this 

Stipulation is deemed to be, amended to name The Trust for Public Land Long Term 

Disability Plan (“the Plan”) as Defendant in this action seeking ERISA plan benefits. 

3. Service of Process on the Plan is hereby waived. The Answer, Motion for 

Summary Judgment, and other pleadings filed by Defendant Unum shall be deemed to 

be the Plan’s Answer, Motion for Summary Judgment, and other pleadings in this 

Action.

4. The parties to this Stipulation submit that, with the addition of any 

Supplemental Declarations submitted to the Court pursuant to the Court’s Order issued 

at the October 26, 2007 Hearing on Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, said 

Motion may be submitted to the Court for determination without additional briefing.

DATE: November 1, 2007 JOHNS & ALLYN 

By: /s/ Burton C. Allyn, IV 

 BURTON C. ALLYN, IV 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 AIWA TROUTMAN 

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DATE: November 1, 2007 GREEN & HUMBERT 

By: /s/ Horace W. Green 

HORACE W. GREEN

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF AMERICA and THE TRUST FOR 

PUBLIC LAND LONG TERM 

DISABILITY PLAN 

I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures 

indicated by a “conformed” signature (/s/) within this e-filed document. 

DATE: November 1, 2007 GREEN & HUMBERT 

By: /s/ Horace W. Green 

HORACE W. GREEN 

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ORDER

 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Unum Life Insurance Company of America be, 

and hereby is, DISMISSED with prejudice from this Action. 

 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that The Trust for Public Land Long Term Disability 

Plan (‘the Plan”) be substituted in as a party Defendant. The Amended Complaint for 

ERISA benefits is deemed amended to name the Plan as party Defendant. The Answer 

to Amended Complaint for ERISA benefits, Motions relating to summary judgment, and 

other pleadings submitted by Defendant Unum Life Insurance Company of America 

shall be, and hereby are, deemed to have been submitted by and on behalf of The Trust 

for Public Land Long Term Disability Plan. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

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 MAXINE M. CHESNEY 

 United States District Judge 

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