STIPULATION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE STATUS CONFERENCE

GARLAND E. BURRELL, Jr., Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff Carolina Casualty Insurance Company ("CCIC") and Defendants DC Transportation Services, Inc. a/k/a/DC Transport Inc. ("DC Transportation"), Igor Parfenov ("Parvenov"), Andrey Pavlov ("Pavlov"), Igor Parfenov d/b/a/DC Transport ("DC Transport"), and Yevgeniy Nik Bugreyev ("Bugreyev") hereby stipulate through their attorneys of record as follows.

The Status Conference scheduled for August 31, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before the Honorable Garland E. Burrell, Jr. in Courtroom 10 of the above-referenced court, will be continued to September 28, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before the Honorable Garland E. Burrell, Jr. in Courtroom 10, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard.

Good cause exists to continue the Status Conference. This insurance coverage action arises out of an underlying wrongful death action captioned Babka v. Bugreyev, et al., Civil Action No. 2:14-cv-00095-MRH, currently pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (the "Babka action"). Mediation in the Babka action is set for August 31, 2015, the same date as the Status Conference in the present matter. The insurance companies involved in the present coverage dispute and their attorneys have been asked to participate in mediation in the underlying Babka action to facilitate settlement of the underlying suit. It is not possible for counsel to be present both at the mediation of the Babka action in Pennsylvania and at the Status Conference in the present action on the same day. In addition, settlement of the Babka action may resolve the dispute between the parties in the present suit, eliminating the need for a Status Conference altogether.

Finally, CCIC added Progressive Northern Insurance Company ("Progressive") as a defendant in its Second Amended Complaint filed on July 15, 2015 (Docket No. 47.) Progressive has filed a Waiver of Service of Summons (Docket No. 50) but has not yet filed a responsive pleading. A short continuance of the Status Conference will permit Progressive to participate in the Status Conference as a party.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

After considering the Parties' Stipulation to Continue the Status Conference, IT IS ORDERED that the current Status Conference scheduled for August 31, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. is continued to October 26, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. A Joint Status Report shall be filed fourteen days before the hearing.