U.S. FIDELITY & GUAR. CO. v. HOUSKA

Civ.A. No. 2:94cv312.

184 B.R. 494 (1995)

UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY, and American Bankers Insurance Company, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph L. HOUSKA and Judy C. Houska, Defendants, and Cenit Bank, F.S.B., Intervenor-Defendant, and Jack D. Maness, Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Joseph L. Houska and Judy C. Houska, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

August 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Charles Waddell, III, Waddell & Barnes, Newport News, VA, for U.S. Fidelity & Guar. Ins. Co.

Allen Williamson Beasley, Breeden, MacMillan & Green, Norfolk, VA, Thomas Jeffrey Salb, Michael Trevor Zugelder, Breeden, MacMillan & Green, Norfolk, VA, Clayton H. Farnham, Dennis Hall, Phillip Comer Griffeth, Atlanta, GA, for American Bankers Ins. Co. of Florida.

Harold Barnes, Barnes & Associates, Suffolk, VA, for Joseph L. Houska and Judy C. Houska.

Robert Vincent Roussos, Roussos and Langhorne, P.L.C., Norfolk, VA, for Jack D. Maness.

David Scott Seery, Patrick Louis Hayden, Thomas Edward Cabaniss, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Norfolk, VA, for Cenit Bank, F.S.B.

Jon David Becker, Jon D. Becker & Associates, Virginia Beach, VA, for Gary Madsen.

Stephen Wainger, Albert Harrison Poole, Huff, Poole & Mahoney, Virginia Beach, VA, for Goodman-Gable-Gould Co. and Karl L. Denison.

Carrollyn C. Cox, Edward Leslie Cox, Cox and Cox, Virginia Beach, VA, William F. Merlin, Jr., Tampa, FL, for William F. Merlin, William F. Merlin, Jr., P.C., Carrollyn C. Cox and E. Leslie Cox, Cox and Cox, Attys. at Law.


OPINION AND ORDER

DOUMAR, District Judge.

The underlying action involved in this case is a declaratory judgment action brought by USF & G Insurance Co. and American Bankers Insurance Co. to declare two policies of insurance void because defendants (Joseph and Judy Houska) allegedly made material misrepresentations and intentionally set, or caused to have set, the fire causing the loss. The insurance covered...

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