MATTER OF CELOTEX CORP.

Bankruptcy Nos. 90-10016-8B1 and 90-10017-8B1, Adv. No. 91-40.

152 B.R. 667 (1993)

In the Matter of the CELOTEX CORPORATION, et al., Debtors. The CELOTEX CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. AIU INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida, Tampa Division.

April 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Schropp, Mark P. Buell, Schropp, Buell & Elligett, Jeffrey W. Warren, Bush, Ross, Gardner, Warren & Rudy, P.A., Mark H. Kolman, Karen L. Bush, Mark D. Silverschotz, Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, for plaintiffs.

Sara Kistler, Asst. U.S. Trustee,

John W. Kozyak, Kozyak Tropin Throckmorton & Humphreys, P.A., for Asbestos Property Damage Claimants Committee.

Charles M. Tatelbaum, Johnson, Blakely, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, P.A., for Creditors Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

William Knight Zewadski, Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye & O'Neill, for Unofficial Asbestos Health Claim Co-Defendants Committee.

H.C. Goplerud, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, for Asbestos Health Claimants Committee.

James W. Greene, William E. Nowakowski, Bromley, Greene & Walsh, for Columbia Cas. Co., Employers Ins. of Wausau, Federal Ins. Co., Protective Nat. Ins. Co.

John A. Yanchunis, Blasingame, Forisz and Smiljanich, P.A., for Continental Cas. Co., Citadel Gen. Assur. Co., Columbia Cas. Co., American Re-Insurance Co., Eric Reinsurance Co., Zurich American Ins. Co.

John E. Peer, Long & Levit, for Continental Cas. Co., Transp. Ins. Co.

Katherine E. Rakowsky, Philip C. Stahl, Iving C. Faber, Margaret B. Jones, Grippo & Eldon, for American Ins. Co., Nat. Sur. Co.

Rolf E. Gilbertson, Paul L. Gingras, Zelle & Larson, for Employers Ins. of Wausau.

Ronald L. Cohen, Seward & Kissell, for Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau.

Mary A. Lau, Robert J. Asti, Lau, Lane, Pieper & Asti, P.A., for Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau.

George A. Vaka, Russell S. Buhite, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal and Banker, P.A., for North Star Reinsurance Co.

Roger E. Warin, Daniel C. Sauls, John A. Flyger, Stoptoe & Johnson, for Highlands Ins. Co., Old Republic Ins. Co., St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co.

James P. Schaller, Christine A. Nykiel, Jackson & Campbell, for American Home Assur. Co., AIU Ins. Co., Granite State Ins. Co., Lexington Ins. Co., Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA.

Thomas B. Mimms, Jr., MacFarlane Ferguson, for American Home Assur. Co., AIU Ins. Co., Highlands Ins. Co., Lexington Ins. Co., Old Republic Ins. Co., Granite State Ins. Co., Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Employers Mut. Cas. Co., American Ins. Co., Nat. Sur. Co., St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co.

Elizabeth B. Sandza, Cynthia T. Andreason, Leboeuf, Lamb, Lieby & MacRae, for Gibraltar Ins. Co., Hudson Ins. Co.

David C. McLauchlan, Lord Bissell & Brook, Deborah M. Paris, Paris & Hanna, P.A., for Lloyds of London.

Jack Willis, Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co., for Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co.

Lynn Bregman, David Donovan, John Siddeek, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, for North American and California Union Ins. Co.

Meryl R. Lieberman, Daniel W. Morrison, III, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, for Gen. Acc. Fire & Life Assur. Co.

William J. Bowman, Hogan & Hartson, for First State Ins. Co., Hartford Indem. Co., Twin City Ins. Co.

Robert H. Berkes, Barbara Hodous, Bodkin, McCarthy, Sargent & Smith, for First State Ins. Co., Hartford Indem. Co., Twin City Fire Ins. Co.

W. Gray Dunlap, Jr., Judith W. Simmons, De La Parte & Gilbert, for Hartford Indem. Co., Twin City Fire Ins. Co., First State Ins. Co.

Robert J. Bates, Jr., Maryann C. Hayes, Pope & John, Ltd., for Eric Reinsurance Co., American Re-Insurance Co., Zurich Ins. Co.

Virginia M. Vermillion, David Schroeder, Gleason, McGuire & Shreffler, for Employers Mut. Cas. Co. and Allstate Ins. Co.

Wilson M. Brown, III, Lawrence A. Nathanson, Drinker Biddle & Reath, for American Motorists Ins. Co. and Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.

Elizabeth G. Repaal, Harris, Barrett, Mann & Dew, for Allstate Ins. Co.

Gregory J. Willis, Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson, for Florida Ins. Guar. Co.

James E. Rocap, III, Cathy J. Burdette, Michael J. Barta, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, Washington, DC, for Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.

Mark M. Schabacker, Arnold, Morris, Frank & Schabacker, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.

Rick Dalan, St. Petersburg, FL, for Royal Indem. Co.

Edward M. Waller, Jr., Fowler White Gillen Boggs, Villareal and Banker, P.A., Tampa, FL, for American Motorists Ins. Co.

Louis Schulman, Butler Burnette & Pappas, Tampa, FL, for Continental Ins. Co., International Ins. Co., U.S. Fire Ins. Co., The American Centennial Ins. Co.

Robert J. Kelly, McElroy Deutsch & Ulvaney, Morristown, NJ, for Intern. Ins. Co. and U.S. Fire Ins. Co.

Susan B. Morrison, Morrison, Morrison & Gregory, P.A., Tampa, FL, Thomas J. Quinn, William J. Cleary, Mendes & Mount, New York City, for Barrett and London Market Companies.

William E. McGrath, Jr., Golden, Rothschild, Spagnola & Difazio, Somerville, NJ, Michael M. Ingram, John A.C. Guyton, III, Alley & Ingram, Tampa, FL, for Transport Ins. Co.

Michael F. Aylward, Morrison, Mahoney & Miller, Boston, MA, Benjamin H. Hill, III, Dennis P. Waggoner, Hill, Ward & Henderson, Tampa, FL, for Transamerica Premier Ins. Co.

Warren D. Hamann, James F. Asher, Kimbrell & Hamann, Miami, FL, Michael Gallagher, German, Gallagher & Murtagh, Philadelphia, PA, for Stonewall Ins. Co.


ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DETERMINE CORE STATUS OF THIS ADVERSARY PROCEEDING

THOMAS E. BAYNES, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

THIS CAUSE came on to be heard upon various Defendants' motions to determine whether this proceeding is a core proceeding (28 U.S.C. § 157). Debtor has filed a five-count complaint seeking, in the main, declaratory relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202. Counts I, II, and III seek a declaration that under numerous insurance...

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