Consolidated Insured Benefits, Inc. v. Conseco Medical Ins.

Full title: CONSOLIDATED INSURED BENEFITS, INC., and RONALD R. ENGLISH, Plaintiffs, v…

Court: United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Greenville Division

Date published: Dec 20, 2004

Civil Action No.: 6:03-3211-20 (D.S.C. Dec. 20, 2004)

Opinion

Civil Action No.: 6:03-3211-20.

December 20, 2004

MOTION TO RECONSIDER THIS COURT'S CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER ENTERED ON NOVEMBER 10, 2004

HENRY HERLONG, District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

All parties in this action agree that a confidentiality order is needed to ensure the protection of produced documents. All parties also agree that this Court's standard confidentiality order and the terms thereof will adequately protect all produced documents. However, plaintiffs requested, and this Court granted on November 10, 2004, that an additional provision be included in this Court's standard confidentiality order that would permit plaintiffs to share documents produced in this case with plaintiffs from an unrelated case pending in the Southern District of Indiana styled Reginald Martin Agency, Inc., et al. v. Conseco Medical Insurance Company, et al., 1:04-CV-01587-RLY-JAB (hereinafter " Martin case").

Conseco Medical Insurance Company ("Conseco Medical") believes that the sharing provision added to this Court's standard confidentiality order frustrates the very