Discovery Deadlines Extended by 4 Months in Applied Underwriters Workers’ Comp Action

NEW YORK — A New York federal judge has extended the discovery deadlines in an action accusing Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Co. and its affiliates of carrying out a fraudulent workers’ compensation scheme, in light of two similar cases pending in California federal court.

In a Nov. 9 order, Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, extended the deadlines by four months.

Judge Koetl set April 15 as the deadline for plaintiffs’ class certification motion and expert reports in support of class certification. The deadline for defendants’ opposition and …