NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS v. HARTFORD CAS. INS.

No. 04-3861, 04-3862.

435 F.3d 729 (2006)

NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS, INC., as assignee of Stravina Operating Company, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HARTFORD CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY & Hartford Insurance Company of the Midwest, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Mullen (argued), Mullen & Foster, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert A. Chaney (argued), Jeffrey A. Goldwater, Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, Terry D. Weissman, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before RIPPLE, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This case dates back to 2001, when Native American Arts, Inc. (NAA), sued two divisions of Stravina Operating Company, LLC. Stravina asked its insurers to defend it against NAA's complaints, but they refused. Eventually, NAA and Stravina settled, and as part of that settlement, Stravina assigned its rights under its old insurance policies to NAA. Relying on those assignments, NAA initiated the present litigation against Stravina's primary insurers...

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