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GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
Brett A. Schlossberg (J.D. No. 19315)
Brian T. Feeney (J.D. No. 78574)
Bryan L. Norton (J.D. No. 86199)
2700 Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-988-7800
Fax: 215-988-7801
EXECUTIVE RISK INDEMNITY, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INC.,
et al.,
Defendants.
- and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
UNITED NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INe.,
Defendant.
- and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
Attorneys for Lumhermens
Mutual Casualty Company and
UBIC Recovery Trust
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
No. lcJo)- SIN CI;' I
MOTION OF LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY AND THE
UNIVERSAL BONDING INSURANCE COMPANY RECOVERY TRUST
FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A SUBPOENA
Pursuant to Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 234.1 and 42 Pa. C.S. S 5326,
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company ("Lumbermens") and the Universal Bonding Insurance
Company Recovery Trust (the "UBIL Recovery Trust") (collectively the "Intervenors"), hereby
request that the Court order the Prothonotary to issue a subpoena to compel the production of
documents and things directed to the corporate representative(s) of Doran Excess Underwriters,
Inc., and in support thereof, state as follows:
I. Lumbermens and the UBIC Recovery Trust are intervenors in a civil action
pending before the Superior Court of New Jersey Chancery Division: Morris County ("New
Jersey Court"), captioned Executive Risk Indemnity, Inc. v. National Program Services, Inc., et
al., and Combined Specialty Insurance Company, et ai., Docket MRS-C-207-02, and United
National Insurance Company v. National Program Services, Inc. and Combined Specialty
Insurance Company, et ai., Docket No. MRS-C-12-03.
2. The Intervenors by and through their New Jersey counsel, filed a motion for a
Commission for Document Subpoena in the New Jersey Court.
3. On June 29, 2005, the Honorable Kenneth C. Mackenzie, Judge of the New Jersey
Court granted the Intervenors' motion, commissioning this Court to "issue a Document
Subpoena to Doran commanding it to produce the documents descri.bed on the attached Schedule
A." See Ex. I.
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4. The Intervenors request that this Court order that the documents set forth in the
Schedule attached to the Commission be produced pursuant to a subpoena.
Respectfully submitted,
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ossberg (J.D. .19315)
Brian 11 F ney (J.D. No. 78574)
Bryan L. Norton (J.D. No. 86199)
GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
2700 Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-988-7800
Fax: 215-988-7801
Attorneys for Movant
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and
UBIC Recovery Trust
Dated: October 3, 2005
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GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
Brett A. Schlossberg (J.D. No. 19315)
Brian T. Feeney (J.D. No. 78574)
Bryan L. Norton (J.D. No. 86199)
2700 Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street
Philadelphia, P A 19103
Phone: 215-988-7800
Fax: 215-988-7801
EXECUTIVE RISK INDEMNITY, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INC.,
et aI.,
Defendants.
-and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
UNITED NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INC.,
Defendant.
- and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
Attorneys for Lumhermens
Mutual Casualty Company and
UBIC Recovery Trust
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
No.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ii
Ii
County of Philadelphia Ii
Bryan L. Norton, being duly sworn, hereby deposes and states that he is an attorney for
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and the Universal Bonding Insurance Company
Recovery Trust; that he is authorized to make this affidavit on their behalf; and that the facts set
forth in the foregoing Motion of Lumbermans Mutual Casualty Company and the Universal
Bonding Insurance Company Recovery Trust for the Issuance of a Subpoena are true and correct
to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief.
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Counsel for Movant
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and
UBIC Recovery Trust
Sworn to and Subscribed to
before me this
3
day
of Oc....+oD€.r
,2005.
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GREENBERG TRAURlG, L.L.P.
200 Campus Drive, P.O. Box 677
Florbam Park, New Jersey 07932
(973) 360-7900
(973) 301-841 0 (facsimile)
Eric Aronson, Esq.
Attorneys for Intervenors Lumbennens Mutual
Casualty Company and UBIC Recovery Trust
EXECUTIVE RISK INDEMNITY, INC.,
v.
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
CHANCERY DIVISION
MORRIS COUNTY
Plaintiffs,
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES,
INC., et ai.,
DOCKET NO. MRS-C-207-02
Defendants.
-and-
COMMISSION FOR DOCUMENT
SUBPOENA UPON DORAN EXCESS
UNDERWRITERS, INe.
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
UNITED NATIONAL INSURANCE
COMPANY,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DOCKET NO. MRS-C-12-03
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES,
INC.,
Defendants.
-and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et aI.,
Intervenors.
To the Judges of the State of Pennsylvania, greetings:
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WHEREAS, it appears to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division:
Morris County that Doran Excess Underwiters 6240 Carlisle Pike. Mechanicsburl!. P A.
17055 ("Doran") has in its possession, custody, and control documents material to the
above-captioned action, we request that you issue a Docwnent Subpoena to Doran
commanding it to produce the docwnents described on the attached Schedule A to
. Greenberg Traurig, LLP, 2700 Two Commerce Square, 2001 Mmket Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19]03, or such other place as the parties may agree upon.
WIlNESS, Hon. Kenneth C. MacKenzie, Judge oCthe Superior Court o~ti. I .
Jersey, Chancery Division, Morris County, New Jersey, this --.::l~ day oC~
2005.
DatedthiS~YO~05.
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Honorable Kenneth C. MacKenzie, S.
SCHEDULE A
A document subpoena slian be served upon Doran Excess Underwiters 6240
Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburl!. P A. 17055. for the following documents:
a. Any and applications for insurance (including any documents submitted
and/or created in connection therewith), concerning requests, solicitations,
proposals, offers, requests for proposal ("RFPs") for Errors & Omissions
("E&O") or similar coverage for Vito Gruppuso and/or National Program
Services, Inc.;
b. A complete copy of any files concerning the applic,~tions identified in the
paragraph (a), above;
c. All documents, including correspondence, memoranda, notes, charts,
forms, worksheets, drafts, policies, specimen polic)' forms, analyses,
underwriting submissions or any documents of any type or kind
whatsoever, concerning the applications identified in the paragraph (a),
above; and
d. All documents, including correspondence, memorwada, notes, charts,
forms, worksheets, drafts, policies, specimen policy forms, analyses,
underwriting submissions or any documents of any type or kind
whatsoever, concerning the following United National Insurance
Company policies: (a) policy numbers XTP 057876, XTP 057882, XTP
058008 and XTP 058009, all with effective dates 5/2199 through 512/00;
(b) policy numbers XTP 062135, XTP 062136 and XTP 062137, all with
effective dates 512100 through 5/2101; (c) policy numbers XTP 066084,
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XTP 066085, XTP 066086, all with effective dates: 5/2/01 through 5r2/02;
and (d) policy number XTP 072250, with effective dates 5f2/02 through
5/2/03.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Bryan L. Norton, do hereby certify that on this 3rd day of October 2005, a true and
correct copy of the Motion of Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and the Universal
Bonding Company Recovery Trust for the Issuance of a Subpoena was served via First Class
Mail on the following:
Kevin J. Fee, Esq.
Komstein, Veisz, Wexler & Pollard, LLP
757 Third Ave
New York, NY 10017
Anthony J. Zarillo, Jr., Esq.
Courter, Kobert, Laufer & Cohen
1001 Route 517
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
Thomas R. Curtin, Esq.
Kathleen N. Fennelly, Esq.
Graham, Curtis & Sheridan
4 Headquarters Plaza
P.O. Box 1991
Morristown, NJ 07962-1991
Paul R. Koepff, Esq.
Maria Lin, Esq.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
153 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
Michael S. Meisel, Esq.
Gerald Gline, Esq.
Cole Schotz Meisel Forman & Leonard
Court Plaza North
25 Main Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Thomas Rantas, Esq.
Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan, Arvidson,
Abrutyn & Lisowski
651 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Suite 200
Livingston, NJ 07039
Michael J. Marotte, Esq.
Michael G. Serafino, Esq.
Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP
10 Washington Street, P.O. Box 905
Morristown, NJ 07963-0905
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EXECUTIVE RISK INDEMNITY, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INe.,
et a!.,
Defendants.
- and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et a!.,
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Intervenors.
No. ;J.60<; - )!'K9 0..,;, I
UNITED NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiff,
v.
NATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES, INe.,
Defendant.
- and-
COMBINED SPECIALTY INSURANCE
COMPANY, et a!.,
Intervenors.
ORDER
AND NOW, this ~ day of
IJ ~t
2005,upon
consideration of the Motion of Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company and the Universal
Bonding Insurance Company Recovery Trust for the Issuance of a Subpoena and the
Commission for Document Subpoena Upon Doran Excess Underwriters, Inc. attached to the
Motion as Exhibit I, it is hereby ORDERED that the Prothonotary of Cumberland County will
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issue a subpoena directed to the corporate representative(s) of Doran Excess Underwriters, Inc.
directing that on or before October 31,2005, it shall: produce documents as set forth the
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Schedule attached to the Commission at Exhibit I.
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BY THE COURT:
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