In re: ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI S.P.A. HOLOCAUST INSURANCE LITIGATION
This Disposition Applies to All Actions.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 25, 2002.
September 25, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert A. Swift, Joanne Zack, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Edward D. Fagan, Fagan & Associates, Livingston, NJ, Lawrence Kill, Linda Gerstel, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York, NY, for Cornell and Smetana Plaintiffs.
Nancy Cohen, Reynold L. Siemens, Stephen N. Goldberg, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, Los Angeles, CA, for Smetana Plaintiffs.
Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Morris A. Ratner, Caryn Becker, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY, Melvyn I. Weiss, Deborah M. Sturman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY, for Schenker Plaintiffs.
William M. Shernoff, Jeffrey Issac Ehrlich, Douglas M. Carasso, Evangeline F. Garris, Shernoff Bidart & Darras, Claremont, CA, Lisa Stern, The Law Office of Lisa Stern, Los Angeles, CA, for Brauns, Mandil, Szekeres, Lightner, and Sladek Plaintiffs.
Thomas R. Fahl, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C., Menomonee Falls, WI, for Plaintiff David David.
Joseph P. Garland, Edward J. Klein, Jay Solomon, Klein & Solomon, LLP, New York, NY, Mel Urbach, Law Offices of Mel Urbach, Jersey City, NJ, for Plaintiff Maurice Tabaksman.
Samuel J. Dubbin, Dubbin & Kravetz, LLP, Coral Gables, FL, for Weiss Plaintiffs.
Franklin B. Velie, Dierdre A. Bergman, A. John P. Mancini, Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn Christy & Veiner, New York, NY, M. Scott Vayer, Law Offices of M. Scott Vayer, New York, NY, for Defendant Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.
Robert M. Raives, David D. Howe, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Zurich.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.
OPINION AND ORDER
MUKASEY, District Judge.
In twelve different actions currently before the court, plaintiffs sue European insurance companies that issued policies in about a dozen countries from 1920 to 1945.1 It is alleged that those companies refused to pay benefits to policy beneficiaries or their surviving family members following the death of the policy holders or damage to...
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