BBP Retail Properties, LLC, et al. v. Triple-S Propiedad, Inc.; John Doe; Richard Doe; XYZ Company, et al.

CourtDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico
DecidedNovember 26, 2025
Docket3:23-cv-01610
StatusUnknown

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Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

BBP RETAIL PROPERTIES, LLC, et al.

Plaintiff,

v. Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB)

TRIPLE-S PROPIEDAD, INC.; JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE; XYZ COMPANY, et al.

Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

BESOSA, Senior District Judge. Before the Court are various discovery motions filed by plaintiff BPP Retail Properties, LLC (“BPP”) and defendant Triple- S Propiedad, Inc. (“Triple-S”), including: (1) a supplemental motion for a protective order filed by Triple-S (Docket No. 134); (2) a motion for contempt against third-party Triple-S Management Corporation filed by BPP (Docket No. 137); (3) a motion to compel Triple-S to supplement its production of e-mail communications filed by BPP (Docket No. 152); (4) a motion to compel production of loss reserves filed by BPP (Docket No. 193); (5) a motion to compel communications withheld due to privilege filed by BPP (Docket No. 194); (6) a motion to compel production of documents filed by Triple-S (Docket No. 196); (7) a motion for sanctions and a protective order filed by Triple-S in response to BPP’s improper Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB) 2

use of documents that Triple-S clawed back as protected work product (Docket No. 212); and (8) a second motion for contempt filed by BPP against a third-party for not complying with a subpoena (Docket No. 244.) For the reasons set forth below, Triple-S’s supplemental motion for a protective order (Docket No. 134) is GRANTED. BPP’s motion to compel production of loss reserves information (Docket No. 193) is DENIED. BPP’s motion to hold in contempt third-party Triple-S Management Corporation for not complying with a subpoena is DENIED. (Docket No. 137.) Triple-S Management Corporation is, however, ordered to comply with the subpoena. BPP’s motion to compel Triple-S to supplement its production of relevant e-mail communications (Docket No. 152) is MOOT. BPP’s motion to compel production of communications improperly withheld as privileged (Docket No. 194) is GRANTED. Triple-S’s motion to compel BPP to produce additional documents responsive to its First Request of Production of Documents (Docket No. 196) is MOOT. Triple-S’s motion for protective order and sanctions due to improper use of

clawed-back Optum documents (Dockt No. 212) is MOOT. Finally, BPP’s second motion for contempt against the OIC (Docket No. 244) is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB) 3

I. Background The motions currently before the Court were originally disposed of during a hearing before Magistrate Judge Marshal D. Morgan on August 28, 2025. (Docket No. 249.) Judge Morgan heard arguments on the motions chronologically. Triple-S’s request for a protective order for documents pertaining to a Loss Portfolio Transfer Agreement between Triple-S and its affiliate, SunCap Limited, was granted. (Docket No. 134; Docket No. 249.) The parties stipulated that Triple-S would produce the Loss Portfolio Transfer Agreement (“LPT”) to BPP under a confidentiality agreement. (Docket No. 281 at pp. 32, 36-38.) Triple-S, however, requested that Judge Morgan make a final ruling on Docket No. 134 after arguments were heard on Docket No. 193, which discussed whether information about the loss reserves in the LPT needed to

be redacted. (Docket No. 281 at p. 37-38.) Judge Morgan did so, and in the end ordered that the LPT be produced under a confidentiality agreement with the loss reserves redacted because they were not relevant due to recent controlling precedent from the Puerto Rico Supreme Court. See Docket No. 249 at pp. 3-4 (citing Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Parques de Cupey v. Triple-S Propiedad, Inc., CC-2024-96 (P.R. Aug. 15, 2025). Accordingly, he denied BPP’s motion to compel production of the loss reserves. Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB) 4

Next, Judge Morgan found that there was no need to hold Triple-S Management Corporation in contempt for its alleged violation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 45. Triple-S Management Corporation, however, needed to comply with the subpoena and produce relevant communications with Triple-S about BPP’s claims that are not duplicative. Judge Morgan ordered Triple-S Management Corporation and BPP to meet and confer to determine how to best comply with the subpoena. (Docket no. 281 at pp. 56-57; Docket No. 249 at p. 2.) Judge Morgan then denied BPP’s motion to compel information on how Triple-S completed their e-mail server searches – described by Triple-S as “discovery on discovery.” (Docket No. 172 at p. 11.) BPP wanted a list of custodians and terms searched on Triple-S’s e-mail servers, among other things, in order to scrutinize Triple-S’s compliance with the request for production of documents. (Docket No. 152; Docket No. 249 at p. 2.) Although he denied BPP’s request, Judge Morgan ordered TPS to re-run searches “on the three .pst files1 using the same parameters

previously applied and to compare those results with the production already made in discovery.” (Docket No. 249 at p. 2.) If there were any discrepancies, the parties were “to confer to determine what information or documents are missing.” Id.

1 .pst files are data files used to store copies of e-mails. Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB) 5

As to the communications on which Joaquín Acosta, Alejandro Gómez, Agustin Cofán, and Kristina Evans were copied, that Triple-S withheld as privileged (Docket No. 194,) Judge Morgan granted BPP’s motion to compel. (Docket No. 249; Docket No. 282 at pp. 78-80.) Judge Morgan found that Triple-S’s motion to compel BPP to supplement their response to its first request of production of documents (Docket No. 196) and motion for sanctions and a protective order due to BPP’s improper use of clawed-back Optum documents (Docket No. 212) were moot. (Docket No. 249 at p. 4.) BBP’s second motion for contempt against the Office of Insurance Commissioner (“OIC”) (Docket No. 244.) was denied without prejudice. On September 23, 2025, Judge Morgan recused himself from the case because Attorney Alfredo Fernández-Martínez, one of BPP’s counsel, was a member of the Merit Selection Panel considering Judge Morgan’s reappointment as a magistrate judge. (Docket No. 264.) The Court then indicated that it would “resolve the motions at docket numbers 134, 137, 1152, 193, 194, 196, 212 and 244” that

Judge Morgan had previously resolved. (Docket No. 265.) On September 25, 2025, Triple-S filed an informative motion stating that it only disagreed with Judge Morgan’s determination granting BPP’s motion to compel production of documents that Triple-S asserted were privileged. (Docket No. 268 at p. 2.) BPP did not Civil No. 23-1610 (FAB) 6

express any disagreement with Judge Morgan’s determinations on the motions. Nevertheless, the Court will address each motion individually. II. Discussion A. Production of Loss Portfolio Transfer Agreement

(Docket No. 134) and Loss Reserves (Docket No. 193) Triple-S requested that the Court issue a protective order forbidding the disclosure of the LPT between itself and Suncap Limited, a Cayman Island entity, that acquired Triple-S’s loss portfolio reserves related to claims for Hurricane María damages. (Docket No. 139 at p. 7.) At the hearing held by Judge Morgan, however, the parties agreed to have the LPT produced under a confidentiality agreement. See Docket No. 281 at p. 32, 37. Accordingly, Triple-S’s motion for a protective order on the LPT is GRANTED. (Docket No. 134.) Triple-S, however, maintained its objection to BPP’s motion to compel production of the LPT without redacting the loss reserves. See id. at p. 37-38; Docket No. 193; Docket No. 204.

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