Judge sets a process for the test for Mutual or Omaha and Longbridge
A video -based mandatory settlement conference takes place on January 20, 2026, where the parties are authorized to offer the entire settlement authority if they reach an agreement.
Subjects experts and any refuting experts must be completed in February 2026 on two amazing dates, where “expert discovery” is completed before 4 May. Pretial motions must be submitted a month later on June 4, with disclosure requirements that have to be completed in September. A final pretrial conference will take place on October 9, 2026, with the process planned to start on November 9.
The judge of the magistrate stated in the order that the detailed dates will not be changed unless “good cause is shown”.
All this stems from a lawsuit against Mutual or Omaha submitted by Longbridge, in which Longbridge claimed that a series of advertising websites for reverse mortgage products are deceptive. This encouraged the mutual of Omaha’s supply to consumers that was mutually from Omaha control over one of them.
A few months later Mutual or Omaha Longbridge, claiming that the company itself had done incorrect advertising practices, while the nuclear accusations were denied by Longbridge.
The first important decision of the case saw the judge Dana M. Sabraw de Heerenen that part of the claims of Longbridge justified in a request for a provisional order for a limited exemption after he had established that “the law and the facts clearly prefer a few claims from Longbridge.”
A few months after the first application from Longbridge, but prior to the Mutual of Omaha’s first substantive response, the companies reportedly tried to settle. Earlier this month they again granted a required ‘early neutral evaluation conference’, but no settlement was achieved.
A mutual Van Omaha lawyer noted in December that the companies “actively pursue early mediation efforts to limit the issues or to reach a resolution without further court cases or escalation,” said a court application. But the company responded to the allegations the following month and the process has been progressing steadily since then.
After the ruling, Longbridge told Longbridge to grant a limited provisional exemption that it was satisfied with the outcome, while the mutual of Omaha did not respond to asking for comments.
