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Parties Involved:
Aetna Life Insurance
Defendant
Hewlett Packard Life Insurance Plan
Defendant
Elizabeth Soriano
Plaintiff

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JOINT STIPULATION RE DE NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW AND RELIANCE ON 

DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD; ORDER

Gordon & Rees LLP

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

Jordan S. Altura (SBN: 209431)

jaltura@gordonrees.com

Tino X. Do (SBN: 221346)

tdo@gordonrees.com

GORDON & REES LLP

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 986-5900

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054

Attorneys for Defendant

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Ronald Dean (SBN: 47663)

rdean@74erisa.com

1155 Via de la Paz

Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-2508

Telephone: (310) 459-1636

Facsimile: (310) 459-6224

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ELIZABETH SORIANO

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN OF CALIFORNIA

ELIZABETH SORIANO

Plaintiff,

vs.

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; 

HEWLETT PACKARD LIFE INSURANCE PLAN

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 2:15-cv-00220-TLN-CKD

JOINT STIPULATION RE DE 

NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW 

AND RELIANCE ON 

DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN 

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD; 

ORDER 

Plaintiff Elizabeth Soriano (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Aetna Life Insurance Company 

(“Aetna”) (collectively “the Parties”) hereby stipulate and agree as follows: 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Complaint under the Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act (“ERISA”) on January 27, 2015;

WHEREAS, Aetna agrees to the de novo standard of review; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff served her First Set of Interrogatories on March 24, 2015 regarding 

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JOINT STIPULATION RE DE NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW AND RELIANCE ON 

DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD; ORDER

Gordon & Rees LLP

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

the documents contained in administrative record, and the basis of Aetna’s denial and affirmative 

defenses in its Answer to Plaintiff’s Complaint; 

WHEREAS, Aetna objects to Plaintiff’s interrogatories as improper in an action under 

ERISA; 

WHEREAS, to avoid the unnecessary expenditure of time and resources with respect to

discovery and motion practice, the Parties agree that they will rely solely on the group disability 

policy, plan documents and claim file that make up the administrative record in this ERISA 

action;

WHEREAS, Aetna produced the administrative record to Plaintiff on April 15, 2015.

WHERAS, Plaintiff withdraws the First Set of Interrogatories;

THEREFORE, the Parties agree to apply the de novo standard of review, and to rely 

solely on the documents and information contained in the administrative record in this ERISA 

action.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: April 28, 2015 RONALD DEAN

By /s/ Ronald Dean

Ronald Dean

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ELIZABETH SORIANO

Dated: April 28, 2015 GORDON & REES LLP

By /s/ Jordan S. Altura

Jordan S. Altura

Tino X. Do

Attorneys for Defendant

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

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JOINT STIPULATION RE DE NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW AND RELIANCE ON 

DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD; ORDER

Gordon & Rees LLP

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 30, 2015

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