JOHN CRANE v. ALLIANZ UNDERWRITERS INS.

No. 1-18-0223.

157 N.E.3d 1097 (2020)

2020 IL App (1st) 180223

JOHN CRANE INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALLIANZ UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY; Allstate Insurance Company, as Successor-in-Interest to Northbrook Insurance Company; AIU Insurance Company; Century Indemnity Company, as Successor to CCI Insurance Company, as Successor to Insurance Company of North America, Columbia Casualty Company, Continental Casualty Company, Continental Insurance Company as Successor-in-Interest to London Guarantee and Accident Company of New York; Granite State Insurance Company; Lexington Insurance Company; Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. as Successor-in-Interest to American Excess Insurance Company; National Surety Corporation; National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA; TIG Insurance Company, as Successor-in-Interest to International Insurance Company, Solely with Respect to Excess Liability Policy Number 5220294939, and Westchester Fire Insurance Company, as Successor-in-Interest to International Insurance Company, Solely with Respect to Excess Liability Policy Number 5220287136, Defendants (Century Indemnity Company and Westchester Fire Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

June 12, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie A. Scharf , Deirdre A. Fox , and George D. Sax , of Scharf Banks Marmor LLC, of Chicago, and William G. Passannante , Cort T. Malone , and Dennis J. Nolan , of Anderson Kill P.C., of New York, New York, for appellant.

Michael R. Orlando , of Cohn Baughman & Martin, of Chicago, for appellees.


OPINION

¶ 1 Plaintiff, John Crane Inc. (JCI), appeals from various pretrial judgments of the circuit court, as well as its order finding that JCI had not proved exhaustion of its primary insurance policies. On appeal, JCI contends (1) the trial court erred in determining...

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