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Allstate Insurance Company
Posted by: ssklar (IP Logged)
Date: December 19, 2006 12:43PM
For those of you who work for or against Allstate, I thought that you would be interested in Allstate's recent responses to Request To Admit that I sent to them in a wrongful death case. Here are some of there responses:
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to notify all interested parties that the scene examination would take place.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to notify all interested parties before the Virginia Park scene was altered.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that in connection with the fire investigations carried on in the ordinary course of Allstate's busniness, Allstate Insurance Company has a duty to put all known interested parties on notice before conducting an origin and cause investigation at the scene.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that even when an action has not been commenced and there is only a potential for litigation, the Allstate Insurance Company is under aduty to preserve evidence that it knows or reasonably should know is relevant to potential litigation.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate's Comapny procedures requires that all interested parties be placed on notice prior to an origin and cause being conducted.
Response: Denied.
Request: Admit that when Allstate is an interested party it expects to be placed on notice prior to an origin and cause investigation being conducted.
Response: Objection. The phrase "interested party" is vague and further, theis request improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michigan law. However, when Allstat is a party to a contract of insurance that requires that notice of certain events be given, then Allsate expects those contracting parties to comply with those notice requriements.
Request: Admit that Defendant Allstate Insurance Company and its ivnestigators have a duty not to spoliate evidence.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to the Plaintiff not to spoliate evidence at the subject scene.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Stuart Sklar
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to notify all interested parties that the scene examination would take place.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to notify all interested parties before the Virginia Park scene was altered.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that in connection with the fire investigations carried on in the ordinary course of Allstate's busniness, Allstate Insurance Company has a duty to put all known interested parties on notice before conducting an origin and cause investigation at the scene.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that even when an action has not been commenced and there is only a potential for litigation, the Allstate Insurance Company is under aduty to preserve evidence that it knows or reasonably should know is relevant to potential litigation.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate's Comapny procedures requires that all interested parties be placed on notice prior to an origin and cause being conducted.
Response: Denied.
Request: Admit that when Allstate is an interested party it expects to be placed on notice prior to an origin and cause investigation being conducted.
Response: Objection. The phrase "interested party" is vague and further, theis request improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michigan law. However, when Allstat is a party to a contract of insurance that requires that notice of certain events be given, then Allsate expects those contracting parties to comply with those notice requriements.
Request: Admit that Defendant Allstate Insurance Company and its ivnestigators have a duty not to spoliate evidence.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Request: Admit that Allstate Insurance Company had a duty to the Plaintiff not to spoliate evidence at the subject scene.
Response: Objection. The allegation improperly implies a duty which does not exist in Michlgan law. Over that objection, same is Denied.
Stuart Sklar
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