NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ACCIDENT & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF WINTERTHUR; Insurance Company of Florida; Southern American Insurance Company; Northwestern National Insurance Company of Milwaukee; Bellefonte Insurance Company; California Union Insurance Company; The Insurance Company of North America; Employers Insurance of Wausau; American Reinsurance Company; Yosemite Insurance Company; General Reinsurance Corporation; United National Insurance Company; Protective National Insurance Company; Central National Insurance Company of Omaha; American Centennial Insurance Company; First State Insurance Company; Highlands Insurance Company; Royal Indemnity Company; Southeastern Fidelity Insurance Company; Argonaut Insurance Company, Inc.; Mead Reinsurance; Fuji Fire & Marine Insurance Company; The American Insurance Company; The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company; National Surety Corporation; The Federal Insurance Company; Allstate Insurance Company; Northbrook Excess & Surplus Insurance Company; Employer's Mutual Casualty Company; Employer's Surplus Lines Insurance Company; Harbor Insurance; Casualty Insurance; The Home Insurance Company; Transamerica Premier Insurance Company; International Surplus Lines Insurance Company; Stonewall Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.
Illinois Central Railroad Company; Southern Pacific Transportation Company; CSX Transportation, Incorporated; Burlington Northern Railroad Company; American Home Assurance Company; Audubon Indemnity Company; Birmingham Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania; Granite State Insurance Company; Landmark Insurance Company; Lexington Insurance Company; National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New Hampshire Insurance Company; The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania; Fenn and London Market Companies, Amici Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 31, 1993.
Decided December 7, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: William Fain Rutherford, Jr., Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, VA, for appellant. Stuart Henry Newberger, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for appellees. ON BRIEF: Frank K. Friedman, Paul C. Kuhnel, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, VA; Stephen A. Trimble, Patrick Kavanaugh, Hamilton & Hamilton, Washington, DC, for appellant. Andrew H. Marks, Mark A. Behrens, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for appellees Ins. Co. of North America and California Union Ins. Co.; Robert E. Heggestad, Casey, Scott, Canfield & Heggestad, P.C., Washington, DC; Stephen A. Cozen, Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr., Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, for appellee Harbor Ins. Co.; James W. Greene, Bromley, Greene & Walsh, Washington, DC; Robert J. Bates, Jr., Maria G. Enriquez, Pope & John, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for appellee American Re-Insurance Co.; Joseph L.S. St. Amant, Kathleen T. Sooy, Elizabeth E.S. Skilling, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, VA, for appellees Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co., Bellefonte Ins. Co., and Insurance Co. of Florida; Michael D. Gallagher, Lisa B. Zucker, German, Gallagher & Murtagh, Philadelphia, PA; David P. Joyce, Stone, Worthy, Reynolds & Joyce, Martinsville, VA, for appellee Stonewall Ins. Co.; S.D. Roberts Moore, Phillip V. Anderson, Walter H. Peake, III, Melissa W. Robinson, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, VA, for appellees American Centennial Ins. Co., Argonaut Ins. Co., First State, Highlands Ins. Co., Royal Ins. Co., and Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co.; Philip J. McGuire, Timothy M. Nolan, Gleason, McGuire & Shreffler, Chicago, IL; M. Lanier Woodrum, Fox, Wooten & Hart, Roanoke, VA, for appellees Allstate Ins. Co.; Steven K. Davidson, Steven J. Barber, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, for appellee Home Ins. Co.; Richard H. Gimer, Richard A. Ifft, Stephen L. Humphrey, Hopkins & Sutter, Washington, DC, for appellee Employers' Surplus Lines Ins. Co.; William A. Brasher, The Law Offices of William A. Brasher, St. Louis, MO, for amicus curiae Burlington Northern R.R. Co.; Weston A. Marsh, Freeborn & Peter, Chicago, IL, for amicus curiae Illinois Central R.R. Co.; David W. Steuber, Tyrone R. Childress, Hill, Wynne, Troop & Meisinger, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae Southern Pacific Transp. Co.; Jerold Oshinsky, Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae CSX Transp. Inc.; M. Elizabeth Medaglia, Richard S. Kuhl, Jackson & Campbell, P.C., Washington, DC, for amici curiae American Home Assur. Co., et al.; George Marshall Moriarty, Kenneth W. Erickson, Peter M. Brody, Matthew M. Burke, Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, for amicus curiae Fenn & London Market Cos.
Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Affirmed in part, appeal dismissed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge WIDENER wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Senior Judge CHAPMAN joined.
OPINION
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
This dispute arises out of several excess liability insurance policies purchased by Norfolk and Western Railway and is before us on an interlocutory appeal from the district court's order denying N & W's motion for partial summary judgment and making...
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