MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP. v. ADMIRAL INS. CO.

Docket No. S026013.

10 Cal.4th 645 (1995)

897 P.2d 1

42 Cal. Rptr.2d 324

MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ADMIRAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

July 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Latham & Watkins, David L. Mulliken, Mark E. Newell, Richard A. Conn, Jr., Kristine L. Wilkes, L. Susan Odell and Dorn G. Bishop for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Hill, Wynne, Troop & Meisinger, David W. Steuber, Kirk A. Pasich, Martin D. Katz, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Barry S. Levin, Stephen N. Goldberg, Robert D. Fram, Wondie Russell, David B. Goodwin, Sharon C. Corda, Martha Churchill, Thomas & Porrazzo, Michael H. Porrazzo, Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, Eugene R. Anderson, Jerold Oshinsky, Jordan S. Stanzler, Scott P. DeVries, Paul L. Friman, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Harold A. Bridges, Virginia R. Pesola, Rufus C. Young, Jr., Timothy V.P. Gallagher, Sinsheimer, Schiebelhut & Baggett, Martin P. Moroski, Steven J. Adamski, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, David M. Roberts, Keith A. Meyer, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Cary B. Lerman, Covington & Burling, Robert N. Sayler, Marc S. Mayerson, William F. Greaney, William P. Skinner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, John W. Cochrane, Timothy B. Dyk, Stephen C. Jones, Edwin L. Fountain, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, William R. Irwin, Donald W. Brown, Tom M. Freeman, David R. McDonald, Thomas M. Peterson, Carol B. Sharp, Eric R. Carleson, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Kurt W. Melchior, Duke, Gerstel, Shearer & Bregante, Alan R. Johnston and Roger Simpson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wilson, Kenna & Borys, Lawrence Borys, Jeffrey Burt, Horvitz & Levy, Peter Abrahams and Mitchell C. Tilner for Defendant and Respondent.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Fred F. Gregory, Deborah A. Aiwasian, Peterson & Ross, Richard L. Blatt, Robert W. Hammersphar, Bruce M. Engel, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Raoul D. Kennedy, Peter W. Davis, James C. Martin, Coudert Brothers, Pamela G. Ostrager, Seth A. Ribner, Edwatd T. Schorr, Julie N. Mack, Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger, John P. Olson, Margot A. Metzner, Thomas J. Ready, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Thomas W. Brunner, Laura A. Foggan, James M. Johnstone, James P. Anasiewiez, Mindlin, Tigerman & Holtzman, Michael Holtzman, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, John Chesney, S. Elizabeth Dorn, Lawrence A. Nathanson, Paul H. Saint-Antoine, Kincaid, Gianunzio, Caudle & Hubert, Patrick J. Hagan, Andrew A. Goode, O'Melveny & Myers, Ralph W. Dau, Martin S. Checov, Abigail A. Jones, Katherine W. Pownell, Gray, York, Duffy, Rattet & Mavridis, John J. Duffy, James B. Sanborn, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, Rita Gunasekaran, Kaufman & Logan, Jeffrey Kaufman, Selman, Breitman & Burgess, Neil H. Selman, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Richard de Saint Phalle, Blaise S. Curet, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Robert E. Freitas, Jon B. Streeter, Carl W. Chamberlin, William W. Oxley, Gloria P. Flores, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough and Donald T. Ramsey as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

In Prudential-LMI Com. Insurance v. Superior Court (1990) 51 Cal.3d 674 [274 Cal.Rptr. 387, 798 P.2d 1230] (Prudential-LMI), we examined the issue of allocation of indemnity among insurers in a first party property insurance case, where a loss had occurred over several policy...

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