Legal Opinion
Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 6, 1992No. A056957PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HANING, J.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and its president and chief executive officer, Gary L. Countryman, seek a writ of mandate to compel respondent superior court to grant a protective order prohibiting Countryman’s deposition (Code Civ. Proc., § 2025, subd. (i)) in a lawsuit brought by plaintiff/real party Gunda Frysinger. This case raises an issue of first impression in California: whether the head of a corporation may be deposed when there is no showing he or she had any involvement in a lawsuit against the corporation, and prior to the plaintiff’s exhaustion of less intrusive…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Rifkind v. Superior CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1994
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