U.S. FIRE INS. CO. v. ASBESTOSPRAY, INC.

Nos. 98-1153, 98-1154 and 98-1854.

182 F.3d 201 (1999)

UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY and The North River Insurance Company, Appellants in No. 98-1854, v. ASBESTOSPRAY, INC.; Spraycraft, Inc.; Asbestos Products Manufacturing Corporation; H & A Construction Co., Inc.; Grover C. Adams; Joseph H. Albert; George Ament; Harvey J. Beecoft; Herbert Oberry Best; Eugene Borofsky; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; Amchem Products, Inc.; American Home Products Corporation; Anchor Packing Co.; A.P. Green Industries, Inc.; Armstrong World Industries; Containteed Corp.; Dana Corporation; Fibreboard Corporation; Keene Corp.; National Gypsum Company; Stich, Angell, Kreidler, Brownson & Ballou, P.A.; Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker; Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, v. Envision Claims Management Corporation; John Doe 1-10, Individually; Jane Doe 1-10, Individually; XYZ Corp., 1-10, Bodies Corporate, Third-Party Defendants. Stich, Angell, Kriedler, Brownson & Ballou, P.A., Appellant in No. 98-1153. The Estate of Frederick Whitaker and Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C., Appellants in No. 98-1154.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed June 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dugan, Brinkmann, Maginnis and Pace, Eugene J. Maginnis, Jr. (Argued), Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant, Stich, Angell, Kreidler, Brownson & Ballou, P.A. in No. 98-1153.

Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., John J. Preefer, New York, N.Y., for Appellants, Frederick W. Whitaker and Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. in No. 98-1154.

Klett Lieber Rooney & Schorling, James Lewis Griffith, Philadelphia, PA, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP, William G. Frey (Argued), Virginia Lynn Hogben, Philadelphia, PA, for United States Fire Insurance Company and The North River Insurance Company, Appellees in Nos. 98-1153 and 98-1154, and Appellants in No. 98-1854.

Cooper & Tuerk, LLP, Carl E. Tuerk, Jr. (Argued), Baltimore, MD, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, Stanley J. Levy, New York, N.Y., for Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, Appellees.

Greitzer and Locks, Gene Locks, Martin Greitzer, Jonathan W. Miller (Argued), Philadelphia, PA, for Eugene Borofsky, Appellee.

Before: SLOVITER and ALITO, Circuit Judges, and ALARCON, Senior Circuit Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge:

Before us are two consolidated appeals. In the first, Stich, Angell, Kreidler, Brownson and Ballou, P.A. ("Stich, Angell"), Frederick Whitaker ("Whitaker") and Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. ("Weitz & Luxenberg") appeal the District Court's January 21, 1998 order, which declared a distribution of funds held by the Stich, Angell firm in escrow for the United States Fire...

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