FIREMAN'S FUND INS. COMPANIES v. EX-CELLO-O CORP.

Civ. A. No. 85-71371.

685 F.Supp. 621 (1987)

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANIES and American Insurance Company, Plaintiffs, v. EX-CELL-O CORPORATION, et al., Defendants. EX-CELL-O CORPORATION, et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. AIU INSURANCE COMPANY (successor to American International Insurance Company), et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

Order Granting Partial Summary Judgment July 31, 1987.

Order Vacating Grant of Partial Summary Judgment September 8, 1987.

Opinion on Motion for Immediate Appeal November 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rivkin, Radler, Dunne & Bayh by Jeffrey Silberfeld, Uniondale, N.Y., on behalf of American Ins. Co.

Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait by Robert B. Webster, Richard C. Sanders, Detroit, Mich. (Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P.C., Nicholas J. Zoogman by Eugene R. Anderson, Avraham C. Moskowitz, Steven P. Vincent, New York City, of counsel), on behalf of Ex-Cell-O, McCord & Davidson.

Jerome C. Gropman & Associates by Raymond I. Foley, Birmingham, Mich., Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan by Paul L. Gingras, Thomas L. Hamlin, Minneapolis, Minn., on behalf of Wausau Ins. Co.

Gofrank & Kelman by Barry M. Kelman, Southfield, Mich. (Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman by H.G. Sparrow, III, Detroit, Mich., of counsel), on behalf of Travelers.

Harvey, Kruse, Westen & Milan, P.C. by Paul S. Koczkur, Detroit, Mich., for Integrity Ins. Co.

Simon, Deitch, Tucker & Friedman by Peter B. Kupelian, Southfield, Mich., for Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

Leonard B. Schwartz, Southfield, Mich., for Royal Indem.

Buchalter, Nemer, Fields, Chrystie & Younger by Deborah A. Pitts, Robert A. Zeavin, Los Angeles, Cal., and Kerr, Russell & Weber by James R. Case, Detroit, Mich., for AIU Ins. Co. and Highland Ins. Co.

Charles C. Cheatham, Detroit, Mich., for American Employers Ins. Co.

Sullivan, Ward, Bone, Tyler, Fiott & Asher by David M. Tyler, Detroit, Mich., and Pretzel & Stouffer by Samuel B. Issacson, Chicago, Ill., for Prudential Re-Insurance Co.

Garan, Lucow, Miller, Seward, Cooper & Becker, P.C. by Thomas F. Myers, Detroit, Mich., and Lord, Bissell & Brook by Andrea Sykes Foote, Chicago, Ill., for "Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, and London Market Ins. Co."

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney by Stephen M. Kelley, Detroit, Mich., Adams, Duque & Hazeltine by Mitchell L. Lathrop, San Diego, Cal., for St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone by Michael W. Hartmann, Detroit, Mich., and Crinker, Biddle & Reath by Timothy C. Russell, Wilson M. Brown, III, Patricia A. Gotschalk, Washington, D.C., for Am. Motorists, Am. Manu. Mut., Lumbermen's Mut.

Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho by Bernard P. McClorey, Ronald G. Acho, T. Joseph Steward, Livonia, Mich., for Hartford Acc. & Indem. Ins. Co.

Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz by Scott L. Gorland, Claudia V. Babiarz, Detroit, Mich., Siff, Newman, Rosen & Parker by Stephen Jacobs, New York City, for First State Ins. Co., New England Reinsurance Corp.

Martin, Bacon & Martin, P.C. by James N. Martin, Thomas G. McHugh, Victor Van Kamp, Mt. Clemens, Mich., for Pacific Employers Ins. Co.

Deneberg, Tuffley, Bocan, Jamieson, Black, Hopkins & Ewald by William Jamieson, David Bocan, Southfield, Mich., for Northbrook Excess and Surplus Ins. Co. ("NESCO") n/k/a Allstate Ins. Co.

Highland & Currier, P.C. by J.R. Zanetti, Jr., Southfield, Mich., for Transport Indem. Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

FEIKENS, District Judge.

Ex-Cell-O Corporation ("Ex-Cell-O"), its subsidiary McCord Gasket Corporation ("McCord"), and McCord's subsidiary Davidson Rubber Company ("Davidson") ("policyholders") move for partial summary judgment declaring the duty of Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies ("Fireman's Fund"), Wausau Insurance Companies ("Wausau"), and Zurich Insurance Company ("Zurich") ("primary insurers" or "insurers")1<...

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