U.S. FID. & GUAR. CO. v. WILKIN INSULATION CO.

No. 1-87-2684.

193 Ill. App.3d 1087 (1989)

550 N.E.2d 1032

UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILKIN INSULATION COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants (Commercial Union Insurance Company et al., Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (4th Division).

Rehearing denied February 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Murphy, Craig S. Mielke, and Gerald K. Hodge, all of Murphy, Hupp, Foote, Mielke & Kinnally, of Aurora, for appellants.

Robert L. Kiesler and Cynthia A. Meister, both of Kiesler & Berman, of Chicago, for appellee United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.

Williams & Montgomery, of Chicago (James K. Horstman, Barry L. Kroll, Anthony P. Katauskas, and Lloyd E. Williams, Jr., of counsel), for appellees Commercial Union Insurance Company and Employers Fire Insurance Company.

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, of Chicago (D. Kendall Griffith, Thomas M. Hamilton, Fritz K. Huszagh, and Katherine S. Derick, of counsel), for appellees Argonaut Insurance Company and Argonaut Midwest Insurance Company.

Rivkin, Radler, Dunne & Bayh, of Chicago (Barbara B. Guibord, Steven R. Merican, and Mark R. Sargis, of counsel), for appellee Aetna Casualty & Surety Company.

Phelan, Pope & John, of Chicago (Peter C. John and Matthew J. Gehringer, of counsel), for appellee Zurich Insurance Company.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Shawn W. Denney, Solicitor General, and Donna Dagnall and G. Michael Taylor, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for amicus curiae Attorney General of the State of Illinois.

Arthur G. Leisten and Christopher J. McElroy, both of United States Gypsum Company, and James T. Otis, Robert A. Creamer, Robert C. Gislason, Patty J. Dyer, and Jeanine M. Jiganti, all of Keck, Mahin & Cate, both of Chicago, for amicus curiae United States Gypsum Company.

Don E. Glickman, of Rudnick & Wolfe, of Chicago, and Wiley, Rein & Fielding, of Washington, D.C. (Thomas W. Brunner, Laura A. Foggan, and Frank Winston, Jr., of counsel), for amicus curiae Insurance Environmental Litigation Association.

Richard L. Sandler, of McDermott, Will & Emery, of Chicago, and Wilson M. Brown III, Stewart Dalzell, Stephen P. Chawaga, and Cynthia M. Lighty, all of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for amici curiae American Motorists Insurance Company, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, and Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company.


Order reversed.

JUSTICE JOHNSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants, Wilkin Insulation Co., Wilkin Properties, Inc., and Architectural Sales, Inc., appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County granting the summary judgment motions of plaintiff, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, and intervening plaintiffs, Commercial Union Insurance Company (hereinafter Commercial Union), Employers Fire Insurance Company (hereinafter Employers...

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