Simplifi Health Benefit Management, LLC v. Cayman Islands National Insurance Company

Filing 15

STATUS CONFERENCE ORDEr. Counsel are DIRECTED to call my office (614.719.3370) on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. for another telephone conference. Signed by Magistrate Judge Mark R. Abel on 5/8/2014. (Abel, Mark)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
EASTERN DIVISION
Simplifi Health Benefit Management,
LLC,

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Civil Action 2:13-cv-00714

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Judge Watson

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Magistrate Judge Abel

Plaintiff
v.
Cayman Islands National Insurance
Company,
Defendant

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Status Conference Order
On May 8, 2014, counsel for the parties participated in a telephone status conference with the Magistrate Judge.
Plaintiff Simplifi continues to make a rolling production of documents. It will produce electronic documents on May 13. Defendant Cayman Islands National Insurance
Company has completed its production of documents.
There are disputes regarding plaintiff’s responses to defendant’s document requests. During the conference, I asked Simplifi's counsel to give Cayman Islands' counsel a
final response to the document requests, indicating which requests they believe ask for
irrelevant information and which would be burdensome to produce. Under Rule
26(b)(2)(C)(iii), Fed. R. Civ. P., the court may consider whether the “burden or expense of
the proposed discovery, outweighs its likely benefit, taking into account the needs of the
case, the amount in controversy, a party’s resources, the importance of the issues at stake
in the litigation, and the importance of the proposed discovery in resolving the issues.” If

Simplifi maintains that responding to a particular discovery request would be burdensome, it must provide Cayman Islands with factual information about how documents
containing information responsive to specific discovery requests or groups of discovery
requests are stored, how those documents can be accessed, what steps would be required
to locate and search each document for the requested information, the number of employees who would be needed to access the documents, the hourly rates those employees
would be paid, and the like.
Depositions. No depositions have been taken. Plaintiff’s counsel believes he will be
in a position to take the deposition of Cayman Islands National Insurance Company's CEO
Lonny Tibbetts by mid-July.
Status Report Due. Counsel are DIRECTED to call my office (614.719.3370) on
Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. for another telephone conference with me to advise
me of the status of document production and any discovery disputes arising out of the
responses to the document requests.

s/Mark R. Abel
United States Magistrate Judge

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