INTERSTATE v. ARCHDIOCESE

Civil No. 88-934-FR.

919 F.Supp. 356 (1996)

INTERSTATE FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, Plaintiff, v. ARCHDIOCESE OF PORTLAND IN OREGON, an Oregon corporation; Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, subscribing to policies numbered SL 3391/SLC 5411 and SL 3831/SLC 5843; Excess Ins. Co. Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation; Yasuda Fire & Marine Ins. Co. Ltd. (U.K.), a United Kingdom corporation; Terra Nova Ins. Co. Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation; Certain Other Underwriters, subscribing to policies SL 3391/SLC 5411 and SL 3831/SLC 5843; and Universal Reinsurance Corp., a New Jersey corporation, successor to Bellafonte Ins. Co., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

March 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Okrent, Holmes & Rickles, Portland, Oregon, and Timothy J. McNamara, Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, Louisiana, for Plaintiff.

Thomas V. Dulcich, Peter A. Ozanne, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Portland, Oregon, for Defendant Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.

Milo Petranovich, Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, Portland, Oregon, Catalina J. Sugayan, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Illinois, for Defendants Underwriters at Lloyd's, London; Excess Ins. Co. Ltd.; Yasuda Fire & Marine Ins. Co. Ltd. (U.K.); Terra Nova Ins. Co. Ltd.; and Universal Reinsurance Corp.


OPINION

FRYE, Judge:

The matters before the court are 1) defendant Underwriters' Rule 59(e) motion to amend the judgment (# 222); and 2) defendant Archdiocese's Rule 59(e) motion to amend the judgment (# 225).

FACTS

This claim arose out of the sexual molestation of Fred Grgich by Father Thomas B. Laughlin, a priest of the Assured Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, during the period from July of 1979 to June of 1983.

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