1. Identify each person, other than a person intended to be called as an expert witness at trial, having discoverable information that tends to support a position that you have taken or intend to take in this action, including any claim for damages, and state the subject matter of the information possessed by that person. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 1.)
2. Identify each person whom you expect to call as an expert witness at trial, state the subject matter on which the expert is expected to testify, state the substance of the findings and opinions to which the expert is expected to testify and a summary of the grounds for each opinion, and, with respect to an expert whose findings and opinions were acquired in anticipation of litigation or for trial, summarize the qualifications of the expert, state the terms of the expert’s compensation, and attach to your answers any available list of publications written by the expert and any written report made by the expert concerning the expert’s findings and opinions. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 2.)
3. If you intend to rely upon any documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things to support a position that you have taken or intend to take in the action, including any claim for damages, provide a brief description, by category and location, of all such documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things, and identify all persons having possession, custody, or control of them. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 3.)
4. Itemize and show how you calculate any economic damages claimed by you in this action, and describe any non-economic damages claimed. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 4.)
5. If any person carrying on an insurance business might be liable to satisfy part or all of a judgment that might be entered in this action or to indemnify or reimburse for payments made to satisfy the judgment, identify that person, state the applicable policy limits of any insurance agreement under which the person might be liable, and describe any question or challenge raised by the person relating to coverage for this action. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 5.)
HISTORICAL NOTES
2003 Orders
The November 12, 2003, order, rewrote interrogatory 2, which previously read:
“2. Identify each person whom you expect to call as an expert witness at trial, state the subject matter on which the expert is expected to testify, state the substance of the findings and opinions to which the expert is expected to testify and a summary of the grounds for each opinion, and attach to your answers any written report made by the expert concerning those findings and opinions. (Standard General Interrogatory No. 2.)
2007 Orders
The December 4, 2007, order, in interrogatory 3, substituted ‘documents, electronically stored information,’ for ‘documents’ in order to conform to terminology used in amendments to Rules.
Committee note: These interrogatories are general in nature and are designed to be used in a broad range of cases.