Ex Parte Cent. States Health & Life Co.

On August 22, 1989, Peter Lorens, an employee of the Omaha, Nebraska, law firm of Zweiback, Hotz Lamberty, P.C. (hereinafter "Zweiback"), contacted Mary Ann Westbrook, a partner in the Florence, Alabama, law firm of Gonce, Young Westbrook, and informed her that the Zweiback firm represented Central States Health and Life Company of Omaha, Nebraska ("Central States"), in a bad faith suit against it. Lorens also told Westbrook that Central States was also in the beginning stages of defending the lawsuit in Lauderdale County, Alabama, and he asked her to file an appearance as local counsel on…