MONTROSE CHEM. CORP. v. SUPERIOR CT. (CANADIAN UNIV.)

Docket No. B076530.

25 Cal.App.4th 902 (1994)

31 Cal. Rptr. 38

MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; CANADIAN UNIVERSAL INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

June 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Latham & Watkins, David L. Mulliken, Robert P. Dahlquist, Dorn G. Bishop, Daniel E. Butcher, Kimberly Arouh, Covington & Burling, Marc S. Mayerson, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Cary B. Lerman for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Coudert Brothers, Douglas L. Hallett, William M. Samoska, R. David Jacobs, Kimberly Straight-Gagnon, Mark Oneal Suttle, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Barry R. Ostrager, O'Melveny & Myers, Ralph W. Dau, Holly E. Kendig, H. Douglas Galt, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Randolph P. Sinnott, Adrienne F. Millican, Richard de Saint Phalle, J. Karren Baker, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Fred F. Gregory, Richard D. Hall, Scott M. Dreyer, Peterson & Ross, Blatt, Hammesfahr & Eaton, Richard L. Blatt, Robert W. Hammesfahr, Bruce M. Engel, Mindlin, Tigerman & Holtzman, Michael Holztman, Hewitt, Kaldor & Prout, Stephen L. Hewitt, Erica S. Arouesty, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, John Chesney, Lawrence A. Nathanson, Paul H. Saint-Antoine, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Robert E. Freitas, Jon B. Streeter, Carl W. Chamberlin, William W. Oxley, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, Gary L. Fontana and Christine C. Franklin, for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

VOGEL (Miriam A.), J.

This declaratory relief action was filed to determine whether several insurers are obligated to defend and indemnify their insured in three groups of environmental contamination lawsuits. The issue is whether this action can be set for trial before the third party suits are resolved. Our answer is that, on the record before us, we cannot say one way or...

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