STIPULATION AND ORDER EXTENDING TIME FOR JOINT STATUS REPORT

JOHN A. MENDEZ, District Judge.

The parties jointly submit this stipulation and proposed order, and respectfully request that the Court continue the deadline for the parties to submit a Joint Status Report and Rule 26(f) discovery plan, until July 12, 2019 or another date which is acceptable to the Court.

Per the Court's Order Requiring Service of Process and Joint Status Report [Dkt. No. 5], the parties were ordered to meet and confer and submit a Joint Status Report and Rule 26(f) discovery plan no later than 60 days after service of process on defendant Associated Industries Insurance Company ("Associated"). As Associated was served on March 19, 2019, the deadline to submit the joint report has passed. However, since service was effected on Associated, the parties have been engaged in global settlement discussions, and two of the underlying lawsuits that form the basis for this insurance dispute (Sickler and Robinson) have resolved with the underlying plaintiffs. While the parties to this dispute — Philadelphia and Associated — have not yet reached a global settlement of their dispute, progress is being made and the parties intend to continue settlement discussions in the immediate future.

As such, and in order to avoid wasted resources and unnecessary burdens to the parties and the Court, the parties jointly request that the Court continue the deadline for the parties to submit a Joint Status Report and Rule 26(f) discovery plan until July 12, 2019, or another date which is acceptable to the Court. The parties respectfully submit that granting the relief requested will allow the parties to continue to explore the possibility of a global settlement, avoid wasting resources of the parties or the Court, and facilitate the efficient resolution of this dispute.

SO STIPULATED

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, THE COURT ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:

In order to allow the parties to continue to explore the possibility of a global settlement, the deadline for the parties to submit a Joint Status Report and Rule 26(f) is hereby continued to July 12, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.