Cavanaugh v. American National Property and Casualty Company et al

Filing 36

STIPULATION and ORDER TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER, signed by District Judge Troy L. Nunley on 12/27/16. Non Expert Discovery Cut-off: 3/31/2017, Expert Disclosure: 5/19/2017. Supplemental experts are to be disclosed within 20 days after this date. All other dates in the Scheduling Order remain the same. (Kastilahn, A)

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WORTHE HANSON & WORTHE 1 A Law Corporation JOHN R. HANSON, SB# 149794 2 E-Mail: jhanson@whwlawcorp.com 1851 East First Street, Ninth Floor 3 Santa Ana, California 92705 Telephone: 714.285.9600 4 Facsimile: 714.285.9700 5 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 6 REBECCA R. WEINREICH, SB# 155684 E-Mail: Rebecca.Weinreich@lewisbrisbois.com 7 STEPHEN V. KOVARIK, SB# 184656 E-Mail: Stephen.Kovarik@lewisbrisbois.com 8 633 West 5th Street, Suite 4000 Los Angeles, California 90071 9 Telephone: 213.250.1800 Facsimile: 213.250.7900 10 Attorneys for Defendants AMERICAN 11 NATIONAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANY, AEROSPACE INSURANCE 12 MANAGERS, INC., AND AEROSPACE INSURANCE SERVICES 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 16 17 WILLIAM G. CAVANAUGH, Plaintiff, 18 19 vs. AMERICAN NATIONAL PROPERTY AND 20 CASUALTY COMPANY, AEROSPACE INSURANCE MANAGERS, INC., 21 AEROSPACE INSURANCE SERVICES, 22 CASE NO. 1:15-CV-01177-TLN-SKO JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF Honorable Troy L. Nunley Defendants. 23 24 25 Plaintiff William G. Cavanaugh (“Cavanaugh”) and defendants American National 26 Property and Casualty Company (“American National”), Aerospace Insurance Managers, Inc., and 27 Aerospace Insurance Services (“defendants”), through their respective counsel, stipulate as 28 JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF 1 follows: 2 1. Cavanaugh filed the present action on or about July 29, 2015, alleging three cause 3 of action: (a) to collect on a judgment entered in underlying litigation against its insured, Bill 4 Coulter (“Coulter”); (b) breach of contract as an assignee of Coulter’s rights under the American 5 National Airport Liability Insurance Policy at issue in this action based on defendants’ alleged 6 failure to defend, settle and indemnify Coulter in connection with the underlying action; and (c) 7 breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (bad faith) based upon defendants’ 8 conduct after Cavanaugh became a third party beneficiary of the insurance contract. 9 2. The underlying liability action sought damages for personal injuries sustained by 10 Cavanaugh when a helicopter he was piloting crashed as a result of the alleged negligence of 11 Coulter. A tender by Cavanaugh was denied. Cavanaugh obtained a judgment against Coulter 12 and an assignment of Coulter’s rights against his carrier. Defendants refused to pay the judgment 13 and the present action followed. 14 3. On February 1, 2016, this Court entered a Pretrial Scheduling Order. As of that 15 date, the order cut off the joinder of parties and amendment of pleadings without leave of court. 16 The Pretrial Scheduling Order also set the discovery cut off on February 2, 2017 and trial on 17 January 22, 2018. 18 4. On December 2, 2016, American National filed a motion for leave to amend the 19 Pretrial Scheduling Order to (1) permit the filing and service of a third-party complaint against 20 Cavanaugh and Coulter seeking to reform that policy to reflect what it alleges is the mutual 21 understanding of the contracting parties that coverage is afforded for “Airport Operations”, and (2) 22 adjust the deadlines set forth in the Pretrial Scheduling Order to allow additional time for 23 Cavanaugh and Coulter to address the reformation claim. 24 5. As set forth in detail by the motion to amend and the supporting declarations of 25 Warren J. Mueller and John R. Hanson, subsequent to the entry of the Pretrial Scheduling Order, 26 American National learned of what it contends is a scrivener’s error in its policy, which plaintiff 27 contends renders coverage illusory. 28 -2JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF 1 6 So as to avoid unnecessarily burdening the Court and to allow for the efficient 2 resolution of this action without the need to incur unnecessary expenses, the parties stipulate, 3 subject to approval of the Court, that: 4 a. 5 6 American National’s motion to amend the Pretrial Scheduling Order be GRANTED for good cause shown. b. The Pretrial Scheduling Order entered on February 1, 2016, is modified to 7 allow the filing of American National’s proposed Third-Party Complaint for 8 Reformation of Insurance Policy (“Third-Party Complaint”), a copy of 9 which is attached hereto as Appendix A. 10 c. The Third-Party Complaint is deemed filed as of the date this stipulation is 11 “So Ordered” by the Court. Plaintiff shall have the normal period of time to 12 respond to the Third-Party Complaint after it is served on plaintiff’s 13 counsel. 14 d. The following deadlines set forth in Section IV of the Pretrial Scheduling 15 Order are modified: 16 Non Expert Discovery Cut-off: March 31, 2017 17 Expert Disclosure: May 19, 2017. Supplemental experts are to be 18 disclosed within 20 days after this date. 19 All other dates in the Scheduling Order remain the same. 20 e. Any depositions of American National taken pursuant to Rule 36(b)(6) of 21 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will be held at a location in San 22 Francisco that is mutually agreeable to the parties. 23 24 25 26 27 28 -3JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF 1 DATED: December 21, 2016 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 2 By: 3 4 5 6 /s/ Stephen V. Kovarik Rebecca R. Weinreich Stephen V. Kovarik Attorneys for Defendants American National Property and Casualty Company, Aerospace Insurance Managers, Inc., Aerospace Insurance Services 7 DATED: December 21, 2016 MANNION & LOWE 8 9 /s/ E. Gerard Mannion By: (as authorized on Dec. 21, 2016) E. Gerard Mannion Demian I. Oksenendler Attorneys for Plaintiff William G. Cavanaugh 10 11 12 13 IT IS SO ORDERED. 14 15 Dated: December 27, 2016 16 Troy L. Nunley United States District Judge 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -4JOINT STIPULATION TO AMEND PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER TO (1) PERMIT FILING OF THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT, AND (2) EXTEND DISCOVERY CUT OFF

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