TRAVELERS CAS. AND SUR. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B176030.

24 Cal.Rptr.3d 751 (2005)

126 Cal.App.4th 1131

TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Plaintiffs and Defendants in the Clergy Cases I, Real Parties in Interest.

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

Review Denied June 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drinker Biddle & Reath, Ronald T. Labriola and Alan J. Lazarus, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Travelers Casualty and Surety Company.

Harris & Green, Gary L. Green, Los Angeles; Horvitz & Levy and Peter Abrahams, Encino, for Petitioner Industrial Underwriters Insurance Co.

Burnham & Brown and Gary R. Selvin, Oakland, for Petitioner Centennial Insurance Co.

Selman Breitman, Jeffrey C. Segal and Richard David Bremer, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Associated International Insurance Co.

Musick, Peeler & Garret and Susan J. Field, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Stonewall Insurance Company.

Arnold & Porter, John Quinn, James F. Speyer and John Lombardo, Los Angeles; McDermott, Will & Emery and Margaret Warner, Los Angeles, for Petitioner Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Co.

Cortner McNaboe Colliau & Elenius, Elizabeth A. Klippi and Michael T. Colliau, Los Angeles; Grippo & Elden and Laura K. McNally, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner CNA Insurance Co.

No appearance for Respondent.

Kiesel Boucher & Larson, Raymond P. Boucher, Patrick DeBlase, and Anthony M. DeMarco, Beverly Hills, for Real Parties in Interest Plaintiffs in Clergy Cases I.

Latham & Watkins, G. Andrew Lundberg, Los Angeles; Tobin & Tobin, Paul E. Gaspari, San Francisco; Callahan, McCune & Willis, Peter M. Callahan and Thomas M. Rutherford, Jr., San Francisco, for Real Party in Interest Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.


RUBIN, J.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange (the Church) has been sued by numerous persons claiming they were the victims of childhood sexual abuse by various priests. Petitioners are the Church's liability insurers. They seek to vacate a written order by a settlement judge purporting to: (1) determine the good faith settlement value of the cases; (2) preclude the insurers from declaring a forfeiture of

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