SCHLUMBERGER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. NATIONAL SUR. CORP.

Nos. 92-2626, 93-1086.

36 F.3d 1274 (1994)

SCHLUMBERGER INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL SURETY CORPORATION; Fireman's Fund Insurance Company; the Travelers Indemnity Company; the Globe Indemnity Company; American Motorists Insurance Company; Puritan Insurance Company; Prudential Reinsurance Company; United States Fire Insurance Company; Royal Insurance Company of America; Jackson & Companies; the American Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees (Two Cases).

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Edward Heintz, Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC, for appellant. Mary Kay Vyskocil, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for appellees. ON BRIEF: Wendy M. Anderson, Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC, for appellant. John Bowman McLeod, Haynsworth, Marion, McKay & Guerard, Greenville, SC, for appellee Travelers Indemn. Co.; Lawrence A. Levy, Gary Dennis Centola, Rivkin, Radler & Kramer, Uniondale, NY; Elizabeth Scott Moise, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, SC, for appellees Nat. Sur. Corp., Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., and American Ins. Co.; John Ephraim Johnston, Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, SC, for appellees Globe Indem. Co. and Royal Ins. Co.; George Bartlett Hall, Jr., Julia A. Dietz, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA; Mason Anderson Goldsmith, Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, Greenville, SC, for appellee Jackson & Companies; John Chesney, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, PA; Steven Bennett, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, DC, for appellee American Motorists Ins. Co.; James Covington Parham, Jr., Marshall Winn, Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, SC, for appellees American Motorists Ins. Co. and Puritan Ins. Co.; Kimball Ann Lane, Craig Brown, Frances J. Phillips, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, New York City, for appellee Puritan Ins. Co.; Karen L. Douglas, Michael Raymond Gregg, Merlo, Chapello & Douglas, Ltd., Chicago, IL; Paul J. Foster, Jr., Foster, Plaxco & Foster, Greenville, SC, for appellee Prudential Reinsurance Co.; Robert J. Kelly, Pamela Tanis, McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney, Morristown, NJ; Wilburn Brewer, Marcus A. Manos, Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, Columbia, SC, for appellee U.S. Fire Ins. Co.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRITT, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.


Vacated and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge DONALD RUSSELL wrote the opinion, in which Senior Judge SPROUSE and District Judge BRITT joined.

OPINION

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Schlumberger Industries, Inc., appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, granting summary judgment in two consolidated cases to the appellee insurance companies. After hearing initial oral argument...

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