STATE FARM FIRE & CASUALTY CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. G006287.

206 Cal.App.3d 1428 (1988)

254 Cal. Rptr. 543

STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; MELVIN G. BLACK et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

December 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Parkinson, Wolf, Lazar & Leo, Jane W. Sudhaus and G. Arthur Meneses for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Lipsky, Blickenstaff & Fenton and David I. Lipsky for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

WALLIN, J.

The trial court ordered petitioner State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, a defendant in the underlying insurance bad faith action brought by real parties in interest Melvin and Darlene Black, to produce four letters it had exchanged with its retained counsel in connection with the Blacks' claim. State Farm contends the letters are protected from discovery by the attorney-client privilege. We agree and grant peremptory...

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