Case Number: BC658047 Hearing Date: December 19, 2018 Dept: 2

Plaintiff’s Two (2) Motions to Compel Verified Responses to Form Interrogatories, Set Two, Supplemental Interrogatory, Set One; Supplemental Request for Production of Documents, Set One; and to Compel Verified Responses to Request for Admissions, Set One, Request for Sanctions are GRANTED in part.

An order requiring Plaintiff to provide verified responses to all discovery is no longer necessary, since Safeco has provided verifications signed on 12/6/18. Oppositions, Ex A.

Imposition of sanctions is warranted for the costs incurred to prepare the motions. There is no evidence Safeco responded to Plaintiff’s efforts to meet and confer until Plaintiff was required to file and serve the motions.

The court imposes total sanctions of $1,930 for all three motions against Defendant-in-Intervention, Safeco Insurance Company of America, whose failure to serve a timely response to Requests for Admission necessitated this motion under §2033.280 (c) and for the failure to provide verified responses to authorized methods of discovery, which constitutes discovery abuse. Cal. Code Civil Procedure § 2023.010(a)(4). Such sanctions are payable within thirty (30) days.

Moving party is ordered to give notice.