Court compels defendant to tap knowledgeable IT personnel.

• Position: CLOUD COMPUTING - Brief article

A recent South Dakota case highlighted on ediscovery. com centered on how well an organization's IT personnel should understand its systems, its data storage practices, and the access to that data.

In Collins v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., the plaintiff, Collins, filed a motion to compel discovery. He claimed the defendants provided an insufficient response to a legal interrogatory that asked for "the person most familiar with [defendants'] electronic claims systems and electronic claims database," such as an IT member.

In response to that interrogatory, St. Paul Fire & Marine had said the persons most familiar with the company's electronic systems and...