UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee,
v.
ADMIRAL INSURANCE COMPANY, American Excess Insurance Company, American Motorists Insurance Company, American Re-Insurance Company, Continental Casualty Company, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, First State Insurance Company, Interstate Fire & Casualty Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, National Surety Corporation, National American Insurance Company of California, as successor to Struyvesant Insurance Company, and Keith Robertson Rayment for Himself and for certain underwriters at Lloyd's, London, and for certain British Insurance Companies Non-Lloyd's Underwriting Agencies, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 4, 1994.
Rehearing Denied January 9, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen C. Neal, P.C., Stephanie A. Scharf, Kirkland Marion B. Adler, Hedlund & Hanley, and Arthur G. Leisten, Stanley L. Ferguson, and Christopher J. McElroy, U.S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, for appellant.
John R. Brandenburg, John R. Brandenburg & Assoc. Ltd.; David C. McLauchlan, Hugh C. Griffin, Mark A. Kreger, Robert P. Arnold, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Michael Dockterman, Dawn Canty, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, D. Kendall Griffith, Nancy G. Lischer, Robert E. Nord, Vito M. Masciopinto, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Terrence E. Kiwala, Rooks, Pitts & Poust; Katherine E. Rakowsky, Grippo & Elden, Thomas F. Poelking, Thomas J. Andrews, Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago; William J. Cassidy, L. Anthony Sutin, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC; Donald V. Jernberg, Elaynne B. Cothran, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly; Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess; Bates, Meckler, Bulger & Tilson, Chicago; Wilson M. Brown, III, Lawrence Nathanson, Drinker, Biddle & Reath; Philadelphia, PA; and Jerry S. Sallee, and Gregory A. Harrison, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH, for appellees.
Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen. and Rosalyn B. Kaplan, Chicago, amici.
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.
Justice GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiff United States Gypsum Company ("Gypsum"), as insured, filed a declaratory judgment action against defendants seeking insurance coverage under certain policies issued between the 1930s and 1984 for actions filed against it involving liability relating to Gypsum's manufacture of asbestos containing building materials (ACBMs). In the underlying actions alleging property...
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