Humana Transaction
Humana Transaction
Humana Transaction
Explain how (a)-(d) below affect Aetnas business strategy and operations, including
Aetnas participation on the public exchanges related to the Affordable Care Act and any
products or geographic areas in which Aetna may withdraw or reduce operations:
(a) A breakup or termination fee if the Proposed Transaction is not completed;
(b) Financing costs associated with the Proposed Transaction if it is not completed;
(c) Any other fees or costs related to the Proposed Transaction not being completed; and
(d) The costs of litigation relating to the Proposed Transaction.
2.
Submit all documents relating to how specification 1(a)-(d) affect Aetnas business strategy
and operations, including Aetnas participation on the public exchanges related to the
Affordable Care Act and any products or geographic areas from which Aetna may withdraw
or reduce operations.
3.
Submit all documents relating to the Aetna Board of Directors meeting on or about June 24,
2016 (including all documents presented to the Board of Directors and any preparatory
documents provided to any Board member or provided to or prepared by any person
presenting to the Board) and either the Proposed Transaction or the public exchanges related
to the Affordable Care Act.
DEFINITIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS
For the purposes of this CID, the following definitions and instructions apply:
A. The terms you, your company or Aetna mean Aetna Inc., its domestic and foreign
parents, predecessors, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, partnerships, and joint ventures, and
all directors, officers, employees, agents, and representatives of the foregoing. The terms
parent, subsidiary, affiliate, and joint venture refer to any person in which there is
partial (25 percent or more) or total ownership or control between your company and any
other person.
B. The term Affordable Care Act means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 42
U.S.C. 18001 et seq. (2010), and any associated statutes, regulations, rules or
interpretations.
C. The terms and and or have both conjunctive and disjunctive meanings.
D. The term documents means all written, recorded, and graphic materials and all electronic
data of every kind in the possession, custody, or control of your company. The term
documents includes electronic correspondence, drafts of documents, metadata, embedded,
hidden and other bibliographic or historical data describing or relating to documents created,
revised, or distributed on computer systems, and all duplicates of documents (whether or not
identical) in the files of or in the files maintained on behalf of all directors, officers,
managers, or other supervisory employees, duplicates of documents in all other files that are
not identical duplicates of the originals, and duplicates of documents the originals of which
are not in the possession, custody, or control of your company. The term documents
includes spreadsheets, as well as underlying cell formulae and other codes. The term
documents also includes electronic mail messages and other documents and data stored in,
or accessible through, computer or other information retrieval systems, such as personal
computers, portable computers, workstations, minicomputers, personal data assistants,
archival voice storage systems, group and collaborative tools, electronic messaging devices,
portable or removable storage media, mainframes, servers, backup disks and tapes, archive
disks and tapes, and other forms of online or offline storage, whether on or off your
company premises. Unless otherwise specified, the term documents excludes bills of
lading, invoices in non-electronic form, purchase orders, customs declarations, and other
similar documents of a purely transactional nature and also excludes architectural plans and
engineering blueprints.
E. The term including means including but not limited to.
F.
The term person includes your company and means any natural person, corporate entity,
partnership, association, joint venture, government entity, or trust.
I.
All references to year refer to calendar year. Each specification that calls for documents
requires the company to submit all responsive documents that were created, altered, or
received by the company after the date that is two years before the date of the issuance of
this CID. Where information, rather than documents, is requested, provide it separately for
each year, or as specified. Where yearly data is not yet available, provide data for the
calendar year to date. If calendar year information is not available, supply your companys
fiscal year data indicating the twelve-month period covered, and provide your companys
best estimate of calendar year data.
J.
L. Before your company or its agent uses software or technology to identify or eliminate
potentially responsive documents and information produced in response to this CID,
including but not limited to search terms, predictive coding or similar technology, neardeduplication, deduplication, and email threading, your company must provide a detailed
description of the methods used to conduct all or any part of the search. If search terms will
be used, in whole or in part, to identify documents and information that are responsive to
this CID, provide the following: (1) a list of the proposed search terms; (2) a word dictionary
or tally list of all the terms that appear in the collection and the frequency with which the
terms appear in the collection (both the total number of appearances and the number of
documents in which each word appears); (3) a glossary of industry and your company
terminology; (4) a description of the search methodology (including the planned use of stem
searches and combination (or Boolean) searches); and (5) a description of the applications
that will be used to execute the search. The Department strongly recommends that your
company provide these items before conducting its collection of potentially responsive
information and consult with the Department to avoid omissions that would cause your
companys response to be deemed deficient.
M. Any documents that are withheld in whole or in part from production based on a claim of
privilege must be assigned document control numbers (with unique consecutive numbers for
each page of each document); for purposes of this instruction, each attachment to a
document must be treated as a separate document and separately logged, if withheld, and
cross referenced, if produced. Your company must also provide a statement of the claim of
privilege and all facts relied upon in support of the decision to withhold each document, in
the form of a log that conforms with the requirements set forth below. Your company is
encouraged to propose categorical limitations to exclude certain classes of privileged
documents from its log.
(1) For each document identified on your companys privilege log, state:
(a) the documents control number;
(b) all authors of the document;
(c) all addressees of the document;
(d) all recipients of the document or of any copies of the document, to the extent not
included among the documents addressees;
(e) the date of the document;
(f) a description of the subject matter of the document;
(g) the nature or type of the privilege that your company is asserting for the document
(e.g., attorney-client privilege);
(h) the specifications of this CID to which the document is responsive;
(i) the document control numbers of any attachments to the document, regardless of
whether any privilege is being asserted for such attachments; and
(j) whether the document has been produced in redacted form.
(2) Your companys privilege log must also conform with all of the following
requirements:
(a) Provide a separate legend containing the full name, titles, and employer or
company affiliation of each author, addressee, and recipient identified on your
companys privilege log.
(b) All attorneys acting in a legal capacity concerning the withheld document or
communication, and only such attorneys, must be identified with the designation
ESQ on the privilege log (it is essential to have a space before and after the ESQ).
(c) The description of the subject matter of each document must describe the nature of
the document in a manner that, though not revealing information that is itself
privileged, provides sufficiently detailed information to enable the Department to
assess the applicability of the privilege claimed.
(d) For each document withheld under a claim that it constitutes or contains attorney
work product, also state whether your company asserts that the document was
prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial and, if so, identify the anticipated
litigation or trial upon which the assertion is based.
(e) Produce all nonprivileged portions of any responsive document (including
nonprivileged or redactable attachments) for which a claim of privilege is asserted,
except where the only nonprivileged information in the document has already been
produced. Note where any redactions in the document have been made.
(f) The privilege log must be produced in both hard-copy and electronic form, the
electronic form of which must be both searchable and sortable.
(g) Documents sent solely between counsel for your company, including in-house
counsel acting solely in a legal capacity, and documents authored by your
companys outside counsel that were not directly or indirectly furnished to any
third party, such as internal law-firm memoranda, may be omitted from the
privilege log. However, any attachments to such documents must be included on
the privilege log (if a privilege is applicable to such materials), unless such
attachments are addressed and sent solely to counsel.
N. If your company is unable to answer any question fully, supply such information as is
available. Explain why such answer is incomplete, the efforts made by your company to
obtain the information, and the source from which the complete answer may be obtained. If
books and records that provide accurate answers are not available, enter best estimates and
describe how the estimates were derived, including the sources or bases of such estimates.
Estimated data should be followed by the notation est. If there is no reasonable way for
your company to make an estimate, provide an explanation.
O. If documents responsive to a particular specification no longer exist for reasons other than
the ordinary course of business or the implementation of your companys document
retention policy, state the circumstances under which they were lost or destroyed, describe
the documents to the fullest extent possible, state the specifications to which they are
responsive, and identify persons having knowledge of the content of such documents.
P. For your companys response to this CID to be complete, the certification on the reverse of
the Civil Investigative Demand form must be executed by the official supervising
compliance with this CID, notarized, and submitted along with the responsive materials.
Any questions you have relating to this CID, including questions regarding its scope or
meaning, or suggestions for possible modifications, should be directed to Ryan Kantor at 202514-8430 or Patricia Sindel at 202-598-8300. To submit documents to the Department of Justice
in response to this CID, address them to the attention of Ryan Kantor and deliver them to 450
Fifth Street N.W., Suite 4100, Washington, DC 20530 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any
business day on or before the date of production specified on the CID form. To submit your
response by U.S. mail, please call the staff listed above for mailing instructions.