STA-RITE INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED and Webster Electric Company, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Continental Casualty Company, First State Insurance Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 16, 1996.
Decided September 18, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Chris J. Trevatoski (argued), Douglas P. Dehler, Raymond R. Krueger, Peter R. Reckmeyer, Michael, Best & Friedrich, Milwaukee, WI, for Sta-Rite Industries, Inc. and Webster Elec. Co.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, Janesville, WI, Catherine C. Warren, John F. Maher, Thomas K. Hanekamp (argued), Tressler, Soderstrom Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for Allstate Ins. Co.
Michael J. Sehr, Elizabeth T. Jozefowicz (argued), Haskell & Perrin, Chicago, IL, for Continental Cas. Co.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Robert S. Soderstrom, Susan M. Luther, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for First State Ins. Co., Hartford Acc. and Indem. Co.
Robert A. Chaney, Michael S. Knippen, Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, Chicago, IL, Bruce M. Engel, Lori S. Nugent, Blatt, Hammesfahr & Eaton, Chicago, IL, for International Ins. Co.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, Janesville, WI, for Northbrook Excess & Surplus Ins. Co.
Barry L. Chaet, Beck, Chaet, Loomis, Molony & Bamberger, Milwaukee, WI, for North River Ins. Co.
Stephen Sonderby, Elizabeth T. Jozefowicz, Haskell & Perrin, Chicago, IL, for Prudential Reinsurance Co.
Robert C. Johnson, Gerald E. Fradin, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Brian E. Butler, Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser & Hansen, Madison, WI, for Travelers Ins. Co.
Before ESCHBACH, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Parties sometimes go to great lengths to get their case into, and then to keep it in, federal court. In this case, a corporation and its subsidiary sued numerous insurers in federal court, based on diversity jurisdiction, seeking coverage for environmental claims. On the same day, they sued another insurer in state court on the same theory and for the same relief. That other insurer was an instate defendant and its inclusion in the federal action...
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