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WHIRLPOOL CORP. v. CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S

No. 1-94-0775.

662 N.E.2d 467 (1996)

278 Ill. App.3d 175

214 Ill.Dec. 901

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S LONDON, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

February 13, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cassiday, Schade & Gloor; D. Patterson Gloor, Sandra E. Kupelian, of counsel, Chicago, for appellant.

Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago; Palmer, Biezup & Henderson, Philadelphia, PA; of counsel, Joseph A. Hinkhouse, Alfred J. Kuffler, Kevin G. O'Donovan, Peter J. Williams, for appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Both sides in this lawsuit are shopping for a friendly forum.

Whirlpool, a Michigan corporation, wants to try its insurance indemnity claim against Lloyd's, a group of English insurance underwriters, in Illinois. Lloyd's wants to try the case in Michigan. The environmental spill that created this insurance coverage controversy took place in Arkansas.

The threshold issue is whether the "service of...

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