SEATTLE TUNNEL PARTNERS v. GREAT LAKES PLC

No. 100168-1.

516 P.3d 796 (2022)

SEATTLE TUNNEL PARTNERS, a Washington joint venture; and Washington State Department of Transportation, Petitioners, Hitachi Zosen U.S.A. Ltd., Intervenor-Petitioner, v. GREAT LAKES REINSURANCE (UK) PLC, a foreign insurance company; Zurich American Insurance PLC, a New York insurance company; Starr Surplus Lines Insurance Company, an Illinois insurance company; Indian Harbor Insurance Company, a Connecticut insurance company; Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE, a foreign insurance company; Torus Insurance (UK) Limited, a foreign insurance company; PartnerRe Ireland Insurance Limited, a foreign insurance company; Does 1-100, individual and/or corporate members of Syndicate 382 at Lloyd's, London; and Does 101-200, individual and/or corporate members of Syndicate 1882 at Lloyd's, London, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed: September 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy M. Bowman , Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 40113, Olympia, WA, 98504-0113, David R. Goodnight , Karl Francis Oles , Rachel Dunnington Groshong , Bart Weldon Reed , Stoel Rives LLP, 600 University St., Ste. 3600, Seattle, WA, 98101-4109, Jill Diane Bowman , Stoel Rives LLP, 600 University St., Ste. 3600, Seattle, WA, 98101-3197, Daniel Wilder Galvin , Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 11011, Olympia, WA, 98508-1011, Richard Ottesen Prentke , V. L. Woolston , Nicholas Peter Gellert , Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 4900, Seattle, WA, 98101-3095, Vivek Chopra , Perkins Coie, 700 Thirteenth Street Nw, Suite 600, Washington, DC, 20005-3960, Lester Brown , 3150 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, Dale Lawrence Kingman , Matthew Franklin Pierce , Gregory David Pendleton , John Douglas Cadagan , Miles C. Bludorn , Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell, LLP, 600 University St., Ste. 2915, Seattle, WA, 98101-4172, Guinevere Becker Bogusz , Amazon, 2021 7th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98121-2601, Haley K. Krug , Kirton McConkie, 1100 W Idaho St., Ste. 930, Boise, ID, 83702-9001, Leonard J. Feldman , Peterson Wampold Rosato Feldman Luna, 1001 4th Ave., Ste. 4131, Seattle, WA, 98154-1155, Joseph Luciana III , DFL Legal, 3rd Floor, 20 Stanwix Street, Pittsburg, PA, 15222, for Petitioners.

Matthew Gonzalez , Zelle LLP, 45 Broadway, Suite 720, New York, NY, 10006, Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick, 2775 Harbor Ave., Sw, Third Floor Ste. C, Seattle, WA, 98126-2138, Dan Millea , Zelle LLP, 500 Washington Ave., S, Suite 4000, Minneapolis, MN, 55415, for Respondents.

Jennifer Daranee Bucher , Vulcan Inc., 505 5th Ave., S Ste. 900, Seattle, WA, 98104-3821, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Vulcan, Inc.

Gabriel Ernest Verdugo , Keller Rohrback L.L.P., 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 3200, Seattle, WA, 98101-3052, Joseph D. Jean , Janine Stanisz , Benjamin D. Tievsky , Maria T. Galeno , Scott D. Greenspan , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 31 West 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10019, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of United Policyholders.


¶1 This consolidated case concerns the interpretation of a builder's "all-risk" insurance policy. Petitioners—Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP)—seek reversal of a published Court of Appeals decision affirming the partial summary judgment rulings that the insurance...

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