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Parties Involved:
Arch Specialty Insurance Company
Defendant
Gerawan Farming Partners, Inc.
Plaintiff
Royal Surplus Lines Insurance Company
Defendant
Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Company
Defendant

Document Text:

MICHAEL C. PHILLIPS APC (Bar No. 48473)

 mea@amclaw.com

LISA L. COPLEN (Bar No. 142726)

 llc@amclaw.com

WILLIAM S. HONG (Bar No. 224214)

 wsh@amclaw.com

ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

Thirty-First Floor

444 South Flower Street

Los Angeles, California 90071-2901

TELEPHONE: (213) 688-0080 t FACSIMILE: (213) 622-7594

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER

SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC., a

California corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY, ARCH

SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,

ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE

COMPANY and DOES 1 through 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:05-CV-01186-AWI-DLB

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO

CONTINUE TRIAL AND RELATED

DATES

TO THIS HONORABLE COURT:

RECITALS

A. Plaintiff GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC. ("GERAWAN") filed this

action on June 6, 2005, in Fresno Superior Court, naming WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY ("WESTCHESTER"), ARCH SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY ("ARCH") and ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY ("ROYAL")

as defendants. This matter involves an insurance coverage dispute regarding benefits under one or

more insurance policies for pitting to nectarines processed at GERAWAN's packing facility.

B. On September 15, 2005, WESTCHESTER removed this action to the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division.

C. The parties have been diligently conducting discovery according to the scheduling

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conference order issued by this Court;

D. The parties have participated in mediation before the Honorable Judge Richard L.

Gilbert (Retired) on July 16, 2007;

E. WHEREAS based on Judge Gilbert's recommendations, the parties agreed to a

further mediation session on November 6, 2007, which would allow the parties additional time to

demand and inspect specific information requests concerning the plaintiff's alleged damages to

address defendants' concerns about plaintiff's claim calculations;

F. WHEREAS defendant WESTCHESTER filed its Motion for Summary Judgment

to be heard before this Court on October 22, 2007; 

G. WHEREAS the parties agree that plaintiff needs additional time to take the

depositions of WESTCHESTER's witnesses in order to oppose WESTCHESTER's motion for

summary judgment;

H. WHEREAS the parties are continuing to meet and confer on dates for the

depositions of WESTCHESTER's witnesses;

I. WHEREAS the parties agree that currently scheduled mediation of November 6,

2007, should be continued to date after the hearing of WESTCHESTER's Motion for Summary

Judgment;

STIPULATION

Based on the above recitals, the parties, through their respective attorneys of record,

hereby stipulate to the entry of the Order filed concurrently herewith as follows:

1. Take off from the Court's calendar Plaintiff's Motion to Continue the hearing on

WESTCHESTER's Summary Judgment Motion currently pending before this Court;

2. Continue hearing on WESTCHESTER's Motion for Summary Judgment currently

scheduled for October 22, 2007 to December 10, 2007;

3. Continue the Mediation currently scheduled for November 6, 2007, to December

17, 2007.

The parties also stipulate that a supplemental stipulation and order may be submitted once

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the parties reach an agreement as to the specific dates for the depositions of WESTCHESTER's

witnesses.

DATED: October __, 2007 STAMMER, MCKNIGHT, BARNUM & BAILEY

By: /s/ Michael Mallery

Michael Mallery

Attorneys for Plaintiff, GERWAN FARMING

PARTNERS, INC. 

DATED: October __, 2007 ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

By: /s/ William S. Hong

Michael C. Phillips APC

Lisa L. Coplen, Esq.

William S. Hong, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER SURPLUS 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

DATED: October __, 2007 CLAUSEN MILLER PC

By: /s/ Keith E. Butler

. Keith E. Butler, Esq.

Jeffrey Neal Gesell, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, ARCH SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY and ROYAL SURPLUS LINE

INSURANCE COMPANY

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 3, 2007 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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