Clausen v. National Grange Mutual Insurance

OPINION ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO COMPEL

QUILLEN, J.

I. INTRODUCTION

At what point, if any, does an insured’s bad faith action against his insurer permit the insured access to the insurer’s claims file and to other materials relevant to the bad faith claim but to which the insurer asserts both the attorney-client privilege and the work product privilege? This is the core of the parties’ dispute in the present Motion to Compel, which concerns discovery requests propounded by Plaintiff Lawrence W. Clausen (“Clausen”) and objected to by Defendant National Grange Mutual Insurance Company (“National…