ROHR INDUSTRIES, INC. v. FIRST STATE INS. CO.

Docket No. B096605.

59 Cal.App.4th 1480 (1997)

ROHR INDUSTRIES, INC., Cross-complainant and Respondent, v. FIRST STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Cross-defendant and Appellant; CNA CASUALTY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

December 15, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Smith, Brennan & Dickerson, Philip E. Smith, Joseph G. Harraka, Jr., Michael W. Ellison and Caroline McIntyre for Cross-defendant and Appellant.

No appearance for Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Michael A. Barnes, John Leland Williams and Gregory L. Smith, Morris, Polich & Purdy, Steven M. Crane and Douglas J. Collodel for Cross-defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

JOHNSON, Acting P.J.

An insurance company appeals from orders confirming good faith settlements between its insured and two other insurance companies. The settlements purported to bar other claims, present and future, against the settling companies. We conclude the trial court's orders were not authorized by statute and in addition were beyond the court's equitable powers. Accordingly, we reverse the orders barring the nonsettling...

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