IN RE UNIVAR USA, INC.

No. 09-10-00148-CV.

311 S.W.3d 175 (2010)

In re UNIVAR USA, INC.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided April 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Scott, Barry Abrams, Marquel S. Jordan, Lance Leisure, Abrams Scott & Bickley, L.L.P., Houston, for relator.

Darren L. Brown, J. Keith Hyde, Paul F. "Chip" Ferguson, D'Juana Parks, John A. Cowan, Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P., Beaumont, for real parties in interest.

Before McKEITHEN, C.J., GAULTNEY and HORTON, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

In this original proceeding, we must determine whether the remaining nonsettling defendant is entitled to discover the contents of settlement agreements between the real parties in interest and the defendants with whom they settled. Relator is Univar USA, Inc. ("Univar"), who allegedly supplied benzene to John Thompson's employer. The real parties in interest are the Estate of John Thompson and his survivors ("Thompsons").

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