Wagner et al v. Summit Air Ambulance et al

Filing 92

ORDER granting 91 Request to Excuse Third Party Defendant Health Care Service Corporation from Attending Mediation. BCBSMT is excused from attending the mediation scheduled for January 7, 2019. Signed by Judge Brian Morris on 1/2/2019. (NOS)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA
BUTTE DIVISION
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REACH AIR MEDICAL
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SERVICES, LLC,
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Counterclaim and Third- )
Party
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Claim-Plaintiff,
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HEALTH CARE SERVICE
CORPORATION d/b/a BLUE
CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF
MONTANA and STAN and RAINY
WAGNER
Counterclaim and ThirdParty Defendants

Case No. 17-57-BU-BMM

ORDER GRANTING REQUEST
TO EXCUSE THIRD PARTY
DEFENDANT HEALTH CARE
SERVICE CORPORATION
FROM ATTENDING
MEDIATION

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Upon review of Third Party Defendant Health Care Service Corporation, a
Mutual Legal Reserve Company operating in Montana as Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Montana (hereinafter “BCBSMT”) and Defendant and Third Party
Plaintiff REACH Air Medical Services, LLC (“REACH”)’s Joint Notice of
Settlement and Request to Excuse BCBSMT from Attending Mediation (the
“Request”), the Court finds that good cause exists to grant the Request.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that BCSBMT is excused from attending the
mediation scheduled for January 7, 2019.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED this 2nd day of January, 2019.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on the 27th day of December, 2018, a true copy of the
foregoing was served:
Via ECF to the following parties:
Matt J. Kelly
Margaret C. Weamer
Tarlow Stonecipher
Weamer & Kelly, PLLC
1705 West College St.
Bozeman, MT 59715-4913

Travis W. Kinzler
Cok Kinzler, PLLP
35 N. Bozeman Avenue
PO Box 1105
Bozeman, MT 59771-1105

Daniel Buckley
Buckley Law Office, P.C.
125 W. Mendenhall, Suite 201
Bozeman, MT 59715

William J. Mattix
Crowley Fleck PLLP
500 Transwestern Plaza II
490 N. 31st Street, Suite 500
P.O. Box 2529
Billings, MT 59103-2529

Joshua L. Fuchs
Nicole M. Perry
Jones Day
717 Texas Street, Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002-2712

Charlotte H. Taylor
Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

/s/ Kimberly A. Beatty
BROWNING, KALECZYC, BERRY & HOVEN, P.C.