Federal Magistrate Grants Motion To Keep Insurer’s Trade Secrets Confidential

(December 22, 2016, 11:44 AM EST) -- OWENSBORO, Ky. — A Kentucky federal magistrate judge on Dec. 14 granted a disability insurer’s motion for a protective order of confidentiality, finding that the information it wants to keep confidential qualifies as trade secrets because a competitor could gain an advantage over the insurer if it had access to the information (Paulette Owens v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston, No. 4:15-cv-00071, W.D. Ky.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172540)....