NOOTER CORP. v. ALLIANZ UNDERWRITERS INS.

No. ED 103835.

536 S.W.3d 251 (2017)

NOOTER CORPORATION, Respondent/Cross-Appellant, v. ALLIANZ UNDERWRITERS INS. CO., Appalachian Ins. Co., Evanston Ins. Co., National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburg, Pa., North Star Reinsurance Corp., OneBeacon America Ins. Co., Appellants, and Certain Underwriters Lloyd's London & London Market Ins., Munich Reinsurance America, Inc., Appellants/Cross-Respondents, and Continental Casualty Co., Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied January 23, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Rice LLC, St. Louis, MO ( Richard A. Wunderlich of counsel), Blank Rome LLP, Washington, DC ( John A. Gibbons , Omid Safa of counsel), and Lowenstein Sandler, Washington, DC ( David L. Elkind of counsel), for respondent/cross-appellant Nooter Corporation.

HeplerBroom LLC, St. Louis, MO ( Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr. , Michael L. Young of counsel), and Karbal, Cohen, Economou, Silk & Dunne, LLC, Chicago, IL ( Roderick T. Dunne , Linda J. Carwile of counsel), for appellant Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company.

Wuestling & James, L.C., St. Louis, MO ( Richard C. Wuestling , Susan M. Diamond of counsel), and BatesCarey LLP, Chicago, IL ( R. Patrick Bedell of counsel), for appellant Appalachian Insurance Company.

Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO ( Bruce D. Ryder of counsel), and Hinkhouse Williams Walsh LLP, Chicago, IL ( Laura S. McKay of counsel), for appellants Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, Certain London Market Insurance Companies, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Lamorak Insurance Company, f/k/a OneBeacon America Insurance Company.

Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, MO ( Thomas B. Weaver , Wilbur L. Tomlinson of counsel), Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Hawthorne, NY ( Adam D. Krauss of counsel), and Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, MO ( J. Stan Sexton , Charles C. Eblen , Sarah Lynn Baltzell of counsel), for appellant Evanston Insurance Company.

McCarthy, Leonard & Kaemmerer, L.C., Town and Country, MO ( Timothy J. Ahrenhoersterbaeumer of counsel), and BatesCarey LLP, Chicago, IL ( Maryann C. Hayes of counsel), for appellant Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.

Pitzer Snodgrass, P.C., St. Louis, MO ( Robyn Greifzu Fox of counsel), and Budd Lamer, P.C., Short Hills, NJ ( Michael J. Balch of counsel), for appellant North Star Reinsurance Corporation.

Goldstein & Price, L.C., St. Louis, MO ( Alan K. Goldstein of counsel), for respondent Continental Casualty Company.


OPINION

The appeal before us involves a dispute between Nooter Corporation ("Nooter") and eight different excess insurance companies: Evanston Insurance Company ("Evanston"), National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA ("National Union"), Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company (...

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