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

Civ. A. No. 85-71371.

702 F.Supp. 1317 (1988)

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.

December 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait by Robert B. Webster and Richard C. Sanders, Detroit, Mich., for Ex-Cell-O, McCord Gasket Corp. and Davidson Rubber Co.; Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P.C., Nicholas J. Zoogman, Eugene R. Anderson, Avraham C. Moskowitz and Steven P. Vincent, New York City, of counsel.

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

Gofrank & Kelman, Barry M. Kelman, Southfield, Mich., for Travelers; Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, H.G. Sparrow, III, Detroit, Mich., of counsel.

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

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 and 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.

Kerr, Russell & Weber by James R. Case, Detroit, Mich., Adams, Duque & Hazeltine by Mitchell L. Lathrop, San Diego, Cal., for Federal 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. and Lumbermen's Mut.

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

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

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

Deneberg, Tuffley, Bocan, Jamieson, Black, Hopkins & Ewald by William Jamieson and 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.

Plaintiff insurers, Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies and American Insurance Company, brought this action for declaratory judgment against their insureds Ex-Cell-O Corporation, McCord Gasket Corporation, and Davidson Rubber Company (collectively "Policyholders"), and two other insurers of Policyholders, Travelers Insurance Company and Employers Insurance of Wausau...

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