Memorandum Opinion and Order

By memorandum opinion and order entered November 27, 2002, the court denied without prejudice, motions to compel filed by Plaintiff (Document ## 75 and 78) in which Plaintiff sought to compel Defendant to produce certain information and documents and, where a privilege was asserted by Defendant, to produce all allegedly privileged information and documents to the court for in camera review.  (Document # 82.)  In his motions to compel, Plaintiff argued that the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrines did not apply in this first party insurance bad faith action and, as such, Defendant should be required to turn over protected information.  The court rejected Plaintiff’s arguments and determined that it was appropriate to apply established principles of attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to the discovery at hand.  At the time of the court’s November 27, 2002, memorandum opinion and order, the court had not seen a privilege log that had been prepared by Defendant.