NATIONAL UNION FIRE INS. v. MEAD JOHNSON & CO. LLC

Nos. 12-3478, 13-1526.

735 F.3d 539 (2013)

NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA., Plaintiff/Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee, and Lexington Insurance Company, Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee, v. MEAD JOHNSON & COMPANY LLC, et al., Defendants/Counterclaim-Plaintiffs-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 29, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Gerth , Attorney, Kightlinger & Gray LLP, Indianapolis, IN, Barbara Michaelides , Attorney, Bates Carey Nicolaides LLP, Chicago, IL, Brent R. Weil , Attorney, Kightlinger & Gray LLP, Evansville, IN, for Plaintiff/Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee.

Brian Capitummino , Attorney, Hal S. Shaftel , Attorney, Louis M. Solomon , Attorney, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York, NY, Mark E. Miller , Attorney, Bowers Harrison , Evansville, IN, for Defendants/Counterclaim-Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Before POSNER, TINDER, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Before us are consolidated appeals in a pair of diversity suits governed, the parties agree, by Indiana law. One suit pits two insurance companies, National Union and Lexington (both subsidiaries of American International Group), against Mead Johnson, which purchased liability coverage from them. The other suit is just between National Union and Mead Johnson. We can ignore the procedural tangle reflected in the caption.

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