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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition For Removal--Other Contract

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STIPULATION AND ORDER CASE NO. CV 08-1935 MHP

PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP

Terrence Coleman, ESQ. - State Bar No. 172183

600 Montgomery Street, 31 Fl. st

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (4150 433-8000

Facsimile: (415) 433-4816

email: tcoleman@pillsburylevinson.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Mark Stephan

DALEY, DEBOFSKY & BRYANT

Mark D. DeBofsky, ESQ admitted Pro Hac Vice

55 W. Monroe Street, Ste 2440

Chicago, Illinois 60603

Telephone: (312) 372-5200

Facsimile: (312) 372-2778

email: mdebofskyy@addbchicago.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Mark Stephan

RIMAC MARTIN

a Professional Corporation

ANNA M. MARTIN, ESQ. - State Bar No. 154279

WILLIAM REILLY, ESQ. - State Bar No. 177550

1051 Divisadero Street

San Francisco, CA 94115

Telephone (415) 561-8440

Facsimile: (415) 561-8430

email: amartin@rimacmartin.com, w_reilly@rimacmartin.com

Attorneys for Defendants

THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS, LLC 

(Long-Term Disability Plan) and 

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

MARK STEPHAN, 

Plaintiff,

vs.

THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS, LLC (LongTerm Disability Plan) and UNUM LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, 

Defendant.

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E-FILING

CASE NO. CV 08 1935 MHP

STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL OF

PREJUDICE OF DEFENDANT

THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS, LLC

(LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN)

AND ORDER THEREON

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STIPULATION AND ORDER CASE NO. CV 08-1935 MHP

Plaintiff’s lawsuit seeks long term disability benefits pursuant to 29 U.S.C. Section 1.

1132(a)(1)(b) under the Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (Long Term Disability Plan) (“Plan”)

which is wholly insured by Group Long Term Disability Policy, Number 537429 issued by

UNUM Life Insurance Company of America. Because plaintiff’s lawsuit only seeks disability

benefits under Group LTD Policy Number 537429, the parties agree that the Plan; i.e., Thomas

Weisel Partners, LLC (Long Term Disability Plan), is not a necessary defendant and the lawsuit

may proceed against UNUM as the sole defendant. 

2. Based on the parties’ stipulation in paragraph 1, above, Defendant Thomas Weisel

Partners LLC (Long Term Disability Plan) as the Plan and only as the Plan, which is the sole

capacity in which it has been named in this litigation, shall be dismissed from this lawsuit with

prejudice and without costs and/or attorney fees. 

SO STIPULATED

RIMAC MARTIN

a Professional Corporation

DATED: August 29, 2008 By: /S/ ANNA MARTIN 

ANNA M. MARTIN

Attorneys for Defendants

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF

AMERICA

DALEY, DEBOFSKY & BRYANT

DATED: August 29, 2008 By: /S/ MARK DEBOFSKY 

MARK D. DEBOFSKY

Attorney for Plaintiff Mark Stephan

PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP

DATED: August 29, 2008 By: /S/ TERRENCE COLEMAN 

TERRENCE COLEMAN

Attorney for Plaintiff Mark Stephan

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STIPULATION AND ORDER CASE NO. CV 08-1935 MHP

ORDER

The parties having so stipulated, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Thomas Weisel

Partners LLC (Long Term Disability Plan) is hereby dismissed with prejudice without costs

and/or attorney fees.

SO ORDERED.

DATED: _______________________ ______________________________________

THE HONORABLE MARILYN HALL PATEL

8/29/2008

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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