Moore v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CHARLES S. COODY, United States Magistrate Judge.

Presently before the court is the plaintiffs motion to compel production of documents identified in Met Life’s privilege log. (doc. # 39) At issue are four documents which Met Life claims are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or protected from disclosure by the work-product doctrine. Moore contends that these documents are not protected by virtue of the so-called fiduciary exception to the privilege. Met Life rebuts that contention arguing that “[o]nce a beneficiary like Moore becomes an…