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Parties Involved:
Community Hospitals of Central California
Defendant
Community Medical Centers Employee Benefit Plan
Defendant
Sun Life Assurance Company
Defendant
Sun Life Financial
Defendant
Laura Williams
Plaintiff

Document Text:

Steven M. McQuillan, No. 107339

JACOBSON, HANSEN, NAJARIAN & McQUILLAN

A Professional Corporation 

1690 W. Shaw Avenue, Suite 201

Fresno, California 93711

Telephone: (559) 448-0400

Facsimile: (559) 448-0123

Attorneys for Plaintiff, LAURA WILLIAMS

LINDA CLAXTON, State Bar No. 125729

linda.claxton@ogletreedeakins.com

ERIC MATHISEN, Indiana Bar No. 19475-71

Eric.mathisen@ogletreedeakins.com

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH,

SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.

633 West Fifth Street, 53rd Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

Telephone: (213) 239-9800

Facsimile: (213) 239-9045

Attorneys for SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA and COMMUNITY

HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA dba COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAURA WILLIAMS,

Plaintiff,

v.

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF

CANADA, SUN LIFE FINANCIAL,

COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL

CALIFORNIA dba COMMUNITY MEDICAL

CENTERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN and

DOES 1-10

Defendants.

Case No.: 1:08-CV-00405-AWI-DLB

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

Plaintiff filed her Complaint under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,

29 U.S.C. §1001 et seq. (hereafter "ERISA"), seeking recovery of long term disability benefits. 

Trial is currently scheduled for February 3, 2010. 

Pursuant to the October 16, 2009 Scheduling Order, Defendants filed their Trial Brief on

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November 2, 2009. Plaintiff Laura Williams has filed her Trial Brief on December 16, 2009. 

Defendants’ Response/Reply Brief was filed on January 15, 2010 and Plaintiff will file her Reply

Brief on or before January 29, 2010. 

The parties through their respective counsel have conferred and agree that the most cost

effective and expedient manner for resolution of the dispute is to waive oral argument and submit

the case for decision after the filing of trial briefs on the administrative record. 

WHEREFORE, the parties request the Court’s approval for judicial review on the

respective trial briefs and the administrative record without oral argument.

Dated: January 26, 2010 JACOBSON, HANSEN, NAJARIAN & MCQUILLAN

By: /s/ STEVEN M. McQUILLAN

Steven Michael McQuillan

Attorney for Plaintiff, LAURA WILLIAMS 

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK &

STEWART, P.C.

 By: /s/ ERIC MATHISEN

Eric Mathisen

Attorney for Defendant, SUN LIFE ASSURANCE

COMPANY OF CANADA and COMMUNITY

HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA dba

COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 26, 2010 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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