Panek v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company

Filing 14

ORDER granting 10 Motion to Compel. Signed by Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon. (Miles, M)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION

MARGARET A. PANEK,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 2:11-cv-13673
Hon. Denise Page Hood
Magistrate Judge Randon

HARTFORD LIFE AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE COMPANY, a Connecticut
corporation
Defendant.
______________________________________________________________________________
DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC
STEPHEN N. LEUCHTMAN, P.C.
Kimberly J. Ruppel (P55138)
Stephen N. Leuchtman (P16590)
Attorney for Defendant
Attorney for Plaintiff
2600 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 300
1380 East Jefferson Avenue
Troy, MI 48084-3312
Detroit, MI 48207
[phone]
[phone] (ext 126)
______________________________________________________________________________
ORDER GRANTING
DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO COMPEL
Based upon the Court’s review of Defendant Hartford Life and Accident Company’s
Motion to Compel Discovery Responses, which was unopposed, and for the reasons stated on the
record at the hearing on May 24, 2012, at which Plaintiff’s counsel did not appear:
IT IS ORDERED that Defendant Hartford Life and Accident Company’s Motion to
Compel Discovery Responses is granted;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff shall respond to Defendant Hartford Life and
Accident Insurance Company’s First Interrogatories and Requests for the Production of Documents
within 14 days from this Order;

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff shall pay Defendant $2,850.00 (two thousand,
eight hundred and fifty dollars and no cents) as a sanction, representing Defendant’s reasonable
attorney’s fees incurred in drafting the motion and appearing for the hearing as established in the
attached Bill of Costs.
s/Mark A. Randon
Mark A. Randon
United States Magistrate Judge
Dated: May 31, 2012
Certificate of Service
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was mailed to the parties of record on this date, May 31,
2012, by electronic and/or ordinary mail.

s/Melody Miles
Case Manager Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon
[phone]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
MARGARET A. PANEK,
Plaintiff,

Case No. 2:11-cv-13673
Hon. Denise Page Hood
Magistrate Judge Randon

v.
HARTFORD
INSURANCE
corporation

LIFE
AND
ACCIDENT
COMPANY, a Connecticut

Defendant.
______________________________________________________________________________
DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC
STEPHEN N. LEUCHTMAN, P.C.
Kimberly J. Ruppel (P55138)
Stephen N. Leuchtman (P16590)
Attorney for Defendant
Attorney for Plaintiff
2600 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 300
1380 East Jefferson Avenue
Troy, MI 48084-3312
Detroit, MI 48207
[phone]
[phone] (ext 126)
______________________________________________________________________________
VERIFIED BILL OF FEES
Legal fees incurred by Defendant related to counsel’s efforts and activities including drafting,
filing and appearing for Motion to Compel Plaintiff to respond to written discovery, and associated
communications with Plaintiff’s counsel, the Court and the client: $2,850.00
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing fees are correct and were necessarily
incurred in this action and that the services for which fees have been charged were actually and
necessarily performed, as set forth above.
DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC
By: /s/ Kimberly J. Ruppel
Kimberly J. Ruppel (P55138)
Attorney for Defendant
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 29th day of May, 2012
/s/ Jaclyn Mark
Jaclyn Mark, Notary Public
BLOOMFIELD 39598-8 1196990v1

JACLYN MARK
Notary Public, Macomb County, MI
Acting in Oakland County, Michigan
My Commission Expires on 08-17-2017