NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
HECLA MINING COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee.
INDUSTRIAL INDEMNITY COMPANY, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
HECLA MINING COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Day Mines, Inc., an Idaho corporation; State of Colorado; ASARCO, Inc., a New Jersey corporation; Resurrection Mining Company, a Delaware corporation; and Res-ASARCO Joint Venture, a Colorado joint venture, Defendants-Appellees.
Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 19, 1989.
Rehearing Denied November 16, 1989.
Certiorari Granted May 29, 1990.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Crane & Leake, P.C., Robert E. Crane and James A. Casey, Durango, for intervenor plaintiff-appellant New Hampshire Ins. Co.
Kelly/Haglund/Garnsey & Kahn, Edwin S. Kahn, Denver, for defendant-appellee Hecla Mining Co.
White & Steele, P.C., Frederick W. Klann, Denver, and Piper & Marbury, Thomas W. Brunner, Laura A. Foggan and John Cavilia, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Ins. Environmental Litigation Ass'n.
Kelly, Stansfield & O'Donnell, Timothy J. Flanagan, Denver, and Covington & Burling, Robert N. Sayler, John G. Buchanan, III and William Greaney, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Intern. Business Machines Corp. and Stauffer Chemical Co.
Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, Charles Goldberg, Frederick J. Baumann, Mark A. Oates and Jill B. Nelson, Denver, for plaintiff-appellant Indus. Indem. Co.
Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Michael R. Hope, Deputy Atty. Gen., Kent E. Hanson, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and Victoria L. Peters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendant-appellee State of Colo.
Bradley, Campbell & Carney, P.C., Earl K. Madsen and John R. Jacus, Golden, for defendants-appellees ASARCO, Inc. and Res-ASARCO Joint Venture.
Sherman & Howard, Christopher Lane, Ronald M. Eddy and F. Brittin Clayton, III, Denver, for defendant-appellee Resurrection Mining Co.
Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.
Opinion by Chief Judge KELLY.
These two cases, which we have consolidated sua sponte, concern the duty of two insurance companies to defend against and provide indemnification for claims asserted in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9601, et seq. (1982). In the federal action, the State of Colorado sued ASARCO, Inc., Resurrection...
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