EX PARTE EMPLOYERS INS. OF WAUSAU

1901308, 1901420.

590 So.2d 888 (1991)

Ex parte EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU, et al. (Re COOPER/T. SMITH STEVEDORING COMPANY, INC., et al. v. ALABAMA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, et al.) Ex parte AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE COMPANY, et al. (Re COOPER/T. SMITH STEVEDORING COMPANY, INC., et al. v. ALABAMA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Hodge Alves III and W. Alexander Moseley of Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, for petitioners Employers Ins. of Wausau, Texas Marine Underwriters Agency, Inc., American Marine Underwriters, Angelina Cas. Co. and Ranger Ins. Co.

Mack B. Binion of Briskman & Binion, P.C., Mobile, for petitioners American Home Assur. Co., Bellefonte Reinsurance Co., Christiania General Ins., Colonial Ins. Co., Ins. Co. of North America, Intern. Ins. Co., Lumberman's Mut. Ins. Co., Midland Ins. Co., New York Marine Managers, Northeastern Ins. Co., Old Republic Ins. Co., Pennsylvania Lumberman's Mut. Ins. Co., Reinsurance Corp. of New York, Republic Ins. Co., Southern American Ins. Co., St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., Stonewall Ins. Co., Twin Cities Ins. Co., U.S. Fire Ins. Co. and Vanguard Ins. Co., certain underwriters at Lloyd's, certain London Market ins. companies, and Highlands Ins. Co.

Fred W. Killion, Jr. of Reams, Philips, Killion, Brooks, Schell, Gaston & Hudson, P.C., Mobile, for petitioner Home Ins. Co.

Peter V. Sintz of Sintz, Campbell, Duke, Taylor & Cunningham, Mobile, for petitioner Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Philip C. Hunsucker, San Francisco, Cal., pro hac vice.

Earl John Imhoff, Los Angeles, Cal., pro hac vice.

Norman E. Waldrop, Jr. and M. Kathleen Miller of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for respondents Cooper/T. Smith Corp. and Paco Terminals, Inc.

Timothy M. Grogan, Mobile, for Pate Stevedore of Mobile, Inc., et al.

Robert S. McAnnally, Cooper C. Thurber and Joseph J. Minus, Jr., for Alabama Ins. Guar. Ass'n.

Greg Wright, Miami, Fla., for Trinity Associates, Inc.

Jan S. Driscoll and F.P. Crowell of Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, San Diego, Cal., for Cooper/T. Smith Corp.


INGRAM, Justice.

The petitioners seek a writ of mandamus directing the Mobile Circuit Court to set aside certain of its rulings and to stay all proceedings in that court until resolution of an allegedly identical lawsuit pending in a superior court of the State of California.

The petitioners, defendants below, are the primary and excess insurance carriers that issued insurance policies to the respondents, Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Company, Inc. ("Cooper...

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