DAYTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL D. v. NATIONAL GYPSUM CO.

Civ. A. Nos. B-81-227-CA, B-81-293-CA and B-87-701-CA.

682 F.Supp. 1403 (1988)

DAYTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL GYPSUM CO., et al., Defendants. W.R. GRACE & CO., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY CO., et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

February 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Dewey Cole, Jr., Newman, Schlau, Fitch & Burns, Jerold Oshinsky, Randy Paar, Anderson Russell Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City, for third-party plaintiff, W.R. Grace & Co.

Kerry L. Neves, Mills, Shirley, Eckel & Bassett, Galveston, Tex., for Continental Cas. Co.

Hubert Oxford, III, Benckenstein, Oxford, Radford & Johnson, Beaumont, Tex., for Lexington Ins. Co.

R. Jeff Carlisle, Lyndberg & Watkins, Los Angeles, Cal., for AIU Ins. Co., Birmingham Fire Ins. Co., Granite State Ins. Co., and Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh.

L.S. Carsey, Fulbright and Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London and London Market Ins. Companies.

G. Patrick Black, Hawthorne & Black, Beaumont, Tex., for Allstate Ins. Co.

Gordon R. Pate, Pate & Dodson, Beaumont, Tex., for the Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.

Stephen F. English, Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pendergrass & Hoffman, Portland, Or., for Guarantee Ins. Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOE J. FISHER, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This insurance coverage dispute concerns questions of coverage for claims of asbestos-related property damage. Presently before the Court is the motion for summary judgment of Defendant and Third-Pardy Plaintiff W.R. Grace & Co. ("Grace"). The issue of coverage is a question of contract construction and, thus, can be decided by this...

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