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JONATHAN A. SHAPIRO (257199)

WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP 950 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tel: (e203 858-6101

Fax: (650) 858-6100

jonathan.shapiro @ wilmerhale.com

ANDREA J. ROBINSON (PRO HAC VICE)

TIMOTHY J. PERLA (PRO HAC VICE)

WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP 60 State Street

Boston, MA 02109

Tel: er; 526-6000

Fax: (617) 526-5000

andrea.robinson @ wilmerhale.com

timothy.perla@ wilmerhale.com

Attorneys for Defendant Life Insurance Company of the Southwest

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOYCE WALKER, KIM BRUCE HOWLETT, and MURIEL SPOONER, on

behalf of themselves and all others CASE NO.: CV 10-9198 JVS (RNBx)

similarly situated, LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ake THE SOUTHWEST’S Plaintiffs, SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE V. APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE mur ae Caste

SOUTHWEST, a Texas corporation,

Judge: Hon. James V. Selna Defendant. Courtroom: 10C

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST’S SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER RE: CONTACTS WITH PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS, 10-9198-JVS (RNBx)

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LSW submits this supplemental filing to apprise the Court of additional new information further highlighting the need for an order like the one this Court issued in the Toyota multi-district litigation.

1. On February 16, 2012, LSW served on Plaintiffs interrogatories seeking, inter alia, the names and addresses of recipients of Plaintiffs’ letter. See Perla Declaration J 2.

py On March 22, 2012, Plaintiffs served their response, providing the names and addresses of 364 recipients. See Perla Declaration { 2.

a Of the 364 recipients, 86 of them were insureds who are not policy owners, and have never (and will never) be members of the putative class. See Perla Declaration J 3.

4. Additionally, more than 10 percent of the recipients are minors (who were insureds, not policy owners). See Perla Declaration { 4.

2. Thus, a material portion (approximately 24 percent) of Plaintiffs’ mailing — stating untruthfully that a case had been filed “on your behalf’ — went to those who will never be members of any class in this case, including many young children.

6. Plaintiffs had documentation that would have enabled them to avoid this problem. Many months ago, LSW produced policy files pertaining to the 364 policies at issue. Among other documents, each policy file contains an application and a policy data section. These documents indicate the identities of the owner (i.e., the putative class member) and the insured. They also indicate the age of the insured. An example of an Application (pertaining to a Recipient) that repeatedly identifies the insured as a minor is attached to the Declaration of Timothy Perla as Exhibit B. Thus, there is, in LSW’s view, no reasonable excuse for mailing 86 people who are not in the putative

class, including minors.

3x LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST’S SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER RE: CONTACTS WITH PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS, 10-9198-JVS (RNBx)

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7. To prevent recurrences, the Court should enter LSW’s Proposed Order providing even-handed and reciprocal ground rules for contacting absent members of

the putative class.

DATED: March 23, 2012 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP

By: /s/ Jonathan A. Shapiro Jonathan A. Shapiro

Andrea J. Robinson Timothy J. Perla

Attorneys For Defendant Life Insurance Company of the Southwest

eee LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST’S SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER RE: CONTACTS WITH PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS, 10-9198-JVS (RNBx)

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PROOF OF SERVICE

I am a resident of the State of California, over the age of eighteen years, and not a pay to the within action. My business address is Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale an orr LLP, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304. On March 23rd, 2012 I served the within document(s):

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST’S SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER RE: CONTACTS WITH PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS

I placed the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope with postage thereon fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Palo Alto, CA addressed as set forth below. _

I personally caused to be emailed the document(s) listed above to the person(s) at the address(es) set forth below.

I electronically filed the document(s) listed above via the CM/ECF system.

Brian P. Brosnahan

Charles N. Freiberg

Jacob Foster

KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN LLP 101 California Street, Suite 2300

San Francisco, CA 94111

cfreiberg @kasowitz.com

Harvey R. Levine

LEVINE & MILLER

550 West C. Street, Suite 1810 San Diego, CA 92101-8596 Ismh@levinelaw.com

/s/ Jonathan A. Shapiro Jonathan A. Shapiro

oA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST’S SUPPLEMENTAL FILING IN SUPPORT OF ITS EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER RE: CONTACTS WITH PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS, 10-9198-JVS (RNBx)