Glover v. Allstate Vehicle and Property Insurance Company

Filing 29

ORDER (1) Granting Plaintiff's 22 Motion to Extend Deadline for Filing Challenges to Experts; (2) Terminating as Moot Plaintiff's Earlier Filed 20 Motion to Extend Deadline for Filing Challenges to Experts; and (3) Granting Plaintiff's 23 Motion to Partially Exclude the Expert Opinion Testimony of Robert Trenkle. Signed by District Judge Matthew F. Leitman. (HRya)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
DEMETRIUS GLOVER,
Plaintiff,

Case No. 4:19-cv-11427
Hon. Matthew F. Leitman

vs.
ALLSTATE VEHICLE AND
PROPERTY INSURANCE COMPANY,
Defendant.
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ORDER (1) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO EXTEND
DEADLINE FOR FILING CHALLENGES TO EXPERTS (ECF No. 22); (2)
TERMINATING AS MOOT PLAINTIFF’S EARLIER-FILED MOTION TO
EXTEND DEADLINE FOR FILING CHALLENGES TO EXPERTS (ECF
No. 20); AND (3) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO PARTIALLY
EXCLUDE THE EXPERT OPINION TESTIMONY OF ROBERT
TRENKLE (ECF No. 23)
On today’s date, January 11, 2022, the Court held a hearing on three motions
filed by the Plaintiff. Two of these motions (ECF Nos. 20 and 22) are substantively
identical: in both motions, Plaintiffs moved to extend the deadline for filing
challenges to experts.1 In the third motion, Plaintiff moved to partially exclude the
expert opinion testimony of Robert Trenkle (ECF No. 23). For the reasons stated on
the record today, the Court GRANTS (1) Plaintiff’s later-filed motion to extend the

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The later-filed motion (ECF No. 22) appears to differ from the earlier-filed motion
(ECF No. 20) only by some minor formatting changes.
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deadline for filing challenges to experts (ECF No. 22); and (2) Plaintiff’s motion to
partially exclude the testimony of Robert Trenkle (ECF No. 23). Because the Court
is granting Plaintiff’s later-filed motion to extend (ECF No. 22), it will
TERMINATE AS MOOT Plaintiff’s earlier-filed motion to extend (ECF No. 20).
In addition, the Court ORDERS that Trenkle shall not offer opinions at trial that (1)
“the most probable cause of the fire” which damaged Glover’s home “was
incendiary;” and (2) that the contents of Glover’s home “did not conform to a
normally lived in residence.”
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Matthew F. Leitman
MATTHEW F. LEITMAN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated: January 11, 2022
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was served upon the
parties and/or counsel of record on January 11, 2022, by electronic means and/or
ordinary mail.
s/Holly A. Ryan
Case Manager
[phone]

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