Colorado High Court: Insurer Did Not Prove Documents’ Trade Secret Status

Mealey's (January 20, 2017, 9:33 AM EST) -- DENVER — Finding that an insurer did not meet its burden to establish that claims-handling documents sought via discovery requests in a bad faith lawsuit constituted trade secrets, a Colorado Supreme Court majority on Dec. 5 affirmed a trial court’s decision to not issue a broad protective order for the documents (In Re Stephen Rumnock v. Dennis Anschutz, et al., No. 16SA38, Colo. Sup.; 2016 Colo. LEXIS 1228)....