FEDERAL INS. CO. v. CABLEVISION SYSTEMS DEV. CO.

No. 85 Civ. 0250.

662 F.Supp. 1537 (1987)

FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. CABLEVISION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, Charles F. Dolan, Communications Management Corporations, Cablevision Systems Holdings Company, Atlantic Cable Television Service Corporation, Cablevision of Huntington, Cablevision Systems Huntington Corporations, Cablevision Program Services Company, Cablevision Systems Corporation, Cablevision Consolidations Company, Sportschannel Associates, Long Island Cable Communications Development Company, AM Cable TV Industries, Inc., Lawrence Meli, Robert J. Sullivan, John Tatta, American Employers Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Mission Insurance Company, Defendants. and RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS AND CROSS-CLAIMS.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

June 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for plaintiff; Barry R. Ostrager, Mary Kay Vyskocil, of counsel.

Semel, Boeckmann, Diamond, Schepp and Yuhas, New York City, for defendant Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.; Douglas A. Boeckmann, James F. Kelleher, of counsel.

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, New York City, for defendant American Employers Ins.; Herbert Dicker, Albert A. Foster, Jr., of counsel.


BARTELS, District Judge.

In this case three primary coinsurers contest the apportionment of defense costs that were expended on behalf of an insured. In 1983 Cablevision Systems Development Company and affiliated corporations, partnerships, and individuals ("Cablevision") were sued in an action entitled Nishimura v. Dolan, 83 Civ. 0085 (JRB) (E.D.N.Y.) (the "Nishimura action"). At the time Cablevision held, among others, four Comprehensive General Liability...

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