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SYNDICATE 420 AT LLOYD'S LONDON v. EARLY AM. INS. CO.

No. 85-3353.

796 F.2d 821 (1986)

SYNDICATE 420 AT LLOYD'S LONDON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EARLY AMERICAN INSURANCE CO. and World American Underwriters, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, v. E & O UNDERWRITERS OF A.W. KNOTT BECKER SCOTT LTD., et al., Defendants-Appellees. EARLY AMERICAN INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SYNDICATE 420 AT LLOYD'S LONDON and World American Underwriters, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, v. E & O UNDERWRITERS OF A.W. KNOTT BECKER SCOTT LTD., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip O. Bergeron, Lawrence L. McNamara, Louis C. LaCour, New Orleans, La., for World American.

Charles M. Steen, William W. Pugh, Margot Mazeau, James H. Roussel, New Orleans, La., for Channel.

E.F. Barnett, Lake Charles, La., for Early American.

Alan Dean Weinberger, Robert E. Barkley, Jr., Robert E. Leake, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we are asked to review the Herculean efforts of a district judge to slay this Hydra of litigation.1 Using the sword of a forum non conveniens dismissal, the court below held that this complex series of suits under the Louisiana Direct Action Statute was more appropriately resolved in Great Britain. Using a conditional dismissal, rather than a torch, he attempted to cauterize the wound in order...

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