KOKEN v. RELIANCE INS. CO.


893 A.2d 70 (2006)

M. Diane KOKEN, Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, v. RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY, Vitas Healthcare Corporation, Vitas Holding Corp., Vitas Healthcare of Texas, L.P., Magellan Reinsurance Company, Ltd., RBH Reinsurance Ltd., Cleanese Americas Corp., Elmwood Insurance Ltd., Clewood Insurance Company, Citicorp Insurance USA, Citicorp, Clients Assurance Pool, Ltd., and CSX Insurance Co., Intervenors Appeal of Mawson & Mawson, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 20, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Baker, John B. Dempsey, Philadelphia, for Mawson & Mawson, Inc., appellant.

Hillary C, Steinberg, Jeffrey B. Rotwitt, James Michael Matour, Philadelphia, for Reliance Ins. Co., appellee.

Joshua Philip Broudy, James B. Dilsheimer, Daniel H. Wheeler, Ann Eun Kim, Eric Jonathan, Rothschild, Anthony Vidovich, Richard P. McElroy, Ann B. Laupheimer, G. Craig Lord, Kit Applegate, Jerome R. Richter, Alan Gershenson, Roger F. Cox. Deborah Fuchs Cohen, Christopher A. Lewis, Philadelphia, Lynne E. Fitzwater, Harrisburg, for Ins. Com'r of PA, appellee.

Lisa Luborsky, Philadelphia, for Pa. Property & Cas. Ins. Guar. Ass'n., intervenor.

Robert A. Kauffman, Harleysville, Elizabeth C.F. Abrams, Philadelphia, Michael L. Browne, for Vitas Healthcare Corp., intervenor.

Paul Kevin Brobson, for Magellan Reinsurance Co. Ltd., RBH Reinsurance, Ltd., intervenors.

Joseph James Bellew, Jay M. Levin, Paoli, for Clients Assur. Pool, Ltd., intervenor.

Carl Robert Shultz, for CXS Ins. Co., intervenor.

Francis P. Newell, Philadelphia, for Celanese Americas Corp., Cellwood Ins. Co., Elwood Ins. Ltd., intervenors.

Diane Marie Takarsky, James William Kutz, Kimberly Marie Colonna, Harrisburg, for Earth Tech, Inc, intervenor.

Mark Jason Dorval, David Carl Franceski, for Citicorp North America, Inc., amicus curiae.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.


OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

This is a direct appeal from a single-judge Commonwealth Court order that denied the petition of appellant Mawson & Mawson, Inc. ("Mawson") to enforce a third party proof of claim ("POC") and its attendant release, and allowed third party claimant Richard Ruhl to withdraw the POC. The question before this Court is whether and when such a third party POC, filed in response to an insurance company's liquidation, may be...

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