FORTY-EIGHT INSULATIONS, INC. v. AETNA CAS. & SUR. CO.

Bankruptcy No. 85 B 5061. No. 87 C 10594. Adv. No. 87 A 1007.

162 B.R. 143 (1993)

FORTY-EIGHT INSULATIONS, INC., Plaintiff, v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

November 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Murphy, Murphy, Hupp, Foote, Mielke & Kinnally, Aurora, IL, Marcia Cotler, Steven R. Gilford, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Terry J. Malik, Michael P. O'Neil, Brian A. Loftus, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.

Thomas M. Crisham, Fritz K. Huszagh, Thomas C. Hofbauer, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, for Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. and Argonaut Ins. Co. and UAP.

Terrence E. Kiwala, Geoffrey A. Bryce, Rooks, Pitts & Poust, Chicago, IL, Teresa Plotkin, William J. Bowman, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, for Hartford Ins. Group and First State Ins. Co.

Stanley B. Block, Paul Parker, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, IL, for Continental Ins. Co. and Harbor Ins. Co.

Robert J. Bates, Jr., Matthew J. Gehringer, John E. Rodewald, Phelan, Pope & John, Chicago, IL, for Affiliated FM Ins. Co., American Re-Insurance Co. and Highlands Ins. Co.

Virginia M. Vermillion, Nancy J. Gleason, Philip J. McGuire, Gleason, McGuire & Shreffler, Chicago, IL, for Allstate Ins. Co., as Successor in Interest to Northbrook Excess and Surplus Ins. Co., formerly known as Northbrook Ins. Co., American Home Assur. Co., and Granite State Ins. Co.

Patrick Maloney, Judith Fournie Helms, Robert R. Anderson, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.

James J. Hickey, Michael J. Merlo, Michael E. Bruton, Merlo, Chapello & Douglas, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Prudential Re-Insurance Co.

Katherine E. Rakowsky, Philip C. Stahl, Eric D. Brandfonbrenner, Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, for Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.

Willis R. Tribler, Dion J. Sartorio, Tribler & Orpett, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Bellefonte Underwriters Ins. Co.

Richard R. Ryan, Michael D. Hultquist, McCullough, Campbell & Lane, Chicago, IL, for Federal Ins. Co.

Stephen Sonderby, Haskell & Perrin, Chicago, IL, for International Surplus Lines Co.

David C. McLauchlan, Robert P. Conlon, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, IL, for London Market Companies and North River Ins. Co.

J. William Cuncannan, Sarah M. Stegemoeller, Defrees & Fiske, Chicago, IL, Committee of Asbestos-Related Plaintiffs.

Kevin M. Forde, Mary Ann Mason, Kevin M. Forde, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Unknown Putative Asbestos-Related Claimants.

Thomas B. Keegan, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Chicago, IL, for Employers Mut. Cas. Co.

Lisa Marco Kouba, Clausen, Miller, Gorman, Caffrey & Witous, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Central Nat. Ins. Co. of Omaha.

Robert J. Spinazzola, Jobin & Flynn, Chicago, IL, for the Travelers.

Jerry L. McDowell, Elizabeth M. Budzinski, Gregory G. Smith, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Chicago, IL, for Taisho Marine and Fire Ins. Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan.

Norman J. Barry, Christopher G. Walsh, Jr., Mary T. Megan, Joseph Della Maria, Rothschild, Barry & Myers, Chicago, IL, Jerald Oshinsky, Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for Foster Wheeler Corporation and York Jersey Liability, Ltd.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MAROVICH, District Judge.

This is an action by Defendants Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., et al. (the "Insurers"),1 against Plaintiff Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. ("Forty-Eight") to estop Forty-Eight from relitigating the issue of which trigger of coverage theory this Court should adopt. In 1980, Forty-Eight prevailed in a declaratory judgment action in the Sixth Circuit by advocating an...

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