Seneca Insurance v. Western Claims, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that party’s discovery disclosure of attorney advice was a deliberate act that resulted in loss of privilege by placing it at issue
• recognizing the Oklahoma Supreme Court had not adopted a test but applying Hearn because both parties agreed that Oklahoma courts would apply a version of the Hearn test
• arguing ION “categorically refuse[s]” to produce documents responsive to, among other discovery requests, Marlow Interrogatory No. 9
• collecting lower court cases predicting Oklahoma would adopt a version of the so-called “Hearn test”
• finding privilege waived as to privileged correspondence regarding legal advice party relied on for settling a lawsuit
• finding privilege waived where corporate officers “generally did not rely on their own reasons for settling with Route 66 for $1 million” but instead “chose to rely on ‘advice of counsel’ to justify the reasonableness of the settlement”

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