PORTER HAYDEN CO. v. CENTURY INDEM. CO.

No. 96-2556.

136 F.3d 380 (1998)

PORTER HAYDEN COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTURY INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Robert Morley Wright, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. John Gilbert Niles, O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Dwight W. Stone, II, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. John P. Sweeney, Miles & Stockbridge, Baltimore, MD, for Appellee.

Before LUTTIG and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and JONES, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judges MOTZ and JONES joined.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant and defendant-appellee, an asbestos producer and an insurer respectively, are signatories to a contract styled the Wellington Agreement, which was written to govern disputes between certain asbestos producers and asbestos insurers. In accordance with the arbitration provisions of the Agreement, appellee...

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