Tentative decisions - Motion to Compel Production of Documents - COUNTY OF SB-V-BLUE CROSS Print

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On November 29, 2017 a business tort/unfair business practice unlimited case was filed by County Of San Bernardino, represented by King & Spalding Llp, against Anthem Blue Cross Life And Health Insurance, Anthem Blue Cross Life And Health Insurancecompany, Blue Cross Of California, Primecare Medical Network, Inc, and Regal Medical Group, Inc, represented by Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and Reed Smith Llp, in the jurisdiction of San Bernardino County. Judge Kory Mathewson presiding.

                        
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                          9.     County of San Bernardino      v.   Blue Cross of California et   al.

       CIVDS1 723565
       Motion to Compel Further Responses to Request for ProductioBK
       Tentative Ruling:

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       PrimeCare largely repeats the same objections for many requests. For example,                 “HUN?
Primecare asserts that requests are vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome,
assume facts not in evidence, call for a legal conclusion, and are protected from
discovery by the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work-product doctrine, or “any
other applicable [but unspecified] privilege. Many of these objections (e.g., vague and
ambiguous) go to the form of the request and, as such, are improper because they are
designed to protect a witness during oral examination not when “the answer is to be
made'In writing, after due time for deliberation and consultation with CQUnsel” since a…