Pollock
Pollock v. Federal Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 THOMAS POLLOCK, et al., Case No. 21-cv-09975-JCS Plaintiffs, 8 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AN AMENDED
FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, PLEADING
10 Defendant. Re: Dkt. No. 189
12 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiffs Thomas Pollock and Eileen Tabios bring this action against Defendant Federal Insurance Company (“Federal”) seeking compensation under a homeowners’ insurance policy issued by Federal on their property in St. Helena, California (“the Property”), which was damaged in the 2020 Glass Fire. Following a Court-ordered appraisal, which culminated in the issuance of an appraisal award on March 29, 2024, and the Court’s November 5, 2024 ruling declining Federal’s request to vacate the award, the parties engaged in a flurry of fact discovery. According to Federal’s counsel, Plaintiffs produced 52,000 documents -- approximately 90% of all of the documents they produced in fact discovery – on or…