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Parties Involved:
Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company
Defendant
Laurie Hood
Plaintiff

Document Text:

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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KANTOR & KANTOR 

ELIZABETH K. GREEN Bar No. 199634 

19839 Nordhoff Street 

Northridge, CA 91324

Telephone: (818) 886-2525 

Facsimile: (818) 350-6272 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

LAURIE HOOD 

SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP 

BRUCE D. CELEBREZZE Bar No. 102181 

MICHELLE Y. MCISAAC Bar No. 215294 

NICHOLAS J. BOOS Bar No. 233399 

One Market Plaza 

Steuart Tower, 8th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 781-7900 

Facsimile: (415) 781-2635 

Attorneys for Defendant 

HARTFORD LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO 

Plaintiff Laurie Hood (“Plaintiff”) and defendant Hartford Life and Accident Insurance 

Company (“Hartford”) hereby STIPULATE and AGREE as follows: 

1. In the course of this action, Plaintiff propounded Special Interrogatories, Set One 

and Request for Production of Documents, Set One, on Hartford. Hartford has agreed to produce 

information and documents in response to certain of Plaintiff’s discovery requests, only pursuant 

to a stipulated protective order, as the information and documents requested are confidential and 

are protected as trade secrets and proprietary business information. 

LAURIE HOOD, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

HARTFORD LIFE AND ACCIDENT 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

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2. Plaintiff agrees that Hartford may designate the information and documents 

produced in response to Special Interrogatories Nos. 5-8, and Request for Production of 

Documents Nos. 9, 10, 20 and 28, as “CONFIDENTIAL” under the terms of this Stipulation and 

Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”), as information which has not been made 

public and which concerns or relates to Hartford’s business practices, including underwriting, 

claims handling and analysis regarding disputed coverage issues, the disclosure of which 

information could have the effect of causing harm to the competitive position of Hartford and its 

presently and/or formerly related entities. 

3. By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information 

derived therefrom as “CONFIDENTIAL,” under the terms of this stipulation, Hartford is 

certifying to the Court that there is a good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation. 

3. Documents and information produced in response to Plaintiff’s Special 

Interrogatories Nos. 5-8, and Request for Production of Documents Nos. 9, 10, 20 and 28, shall 

be so designated by stamping copies of the document produced with the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any multipage 

document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated. 

4. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial, concerning the 

information produced in response to Special Interrogatories Nos. 5-8, and Request for 

Production of Documents Nos. 9, 10, 20 and 28, may be designated as confidential by making a 

statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or other proceeding. Arrangements shall 

be made with the court reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such 

portions of the transcript containing information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL”, and to label 

such portions appropriately. 

5. Material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this Stipulation, the 

information contained therein, and any summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived 

in whole or in part from material designated as confidential (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL 

MATERIAL”) shall be used only for the purposes of the prosecution, defense, or settlement of 

this action, and for no other purpose. 

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6. CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL produced pursuant to this Stipulation may be 

disclosed or made available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, 

clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “Qualified Persons” 

designated below: 

 a. in-house counsel of a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party 

deemed necessary by counsel to aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

 b. experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such 

counsel to assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

 c. court reporter(s) employed in this action; 

 d. a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action; and 

 e. any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

7. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of Qualified Persons. 

8. If CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL is to be included in any papers to be filed with 

the Court, the party proposing that such material be filed must first obtain a court order allowing 

such information to be filed under seal, or such information may not be so used. If a party 

wishes information to be filed under seal, they must apply for an order to that effect pursuant to 

Local Rule 39-141. 

9. In the event that any CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL is used in any court 

proceeding in this action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and the party 

using such shall take all reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

10. This Stipulation shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (i) to bring 

before the Court at any time the question of whether any other particular document or 

information is confidential or whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to 

the Court for a separate protective order as to any other particular document or information, 

including restrictions differing from those as specified herein. 

11. This Stipulation is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of 

documents and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court 

unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Stipulation nor the production of any information 

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or document under the terms of this Stipulation nor any proceedings pursuant to this Stipulation 

shall be deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party or of altering the 

confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such document or information or altering any 

existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

12. This Stipulation shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that 

the information contained in CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL is not or does not become known to 

the public, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of 

information disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall 

assemble and return to each other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated 

as confidential and all copies of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: KANTOR & KANTOR LLP 

By: 

ELIZABETH GREEN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

LAURIE HOOD 

DATED: SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP 

By: 

BRUCE D. CELEBREZZE 

MICHELLE Y. MCISAAC 

Attorneys for Defendant 

HARTFORD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

ORDER

Subject to the modifications indicated above, this stipulated protective order is approved. 

SO ORDERED. 

DATED: April 3, 2008. 

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