AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY
v.
ABBOTT LABORATORIES, INC.; Parke, Davis & Company; William H. Rorer, Inc.; and the Upjohn Company
v.
CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY and the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance Company.
United States District Court, D. Connecticut.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 14, 1986.
February 14, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas J. Groark, Jr., Allan B. Taylor, Daniel L. Fitzmaurice, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiff Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.
J. Read Murphy, H. Kennedy Hudner, Hartford, Conn., Harold D. Murry, Jr., John C. Calender, Washington, D.C., for defendant Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
R. Cornelius Danaher, Jr., James T. Flaherty, J. Spangler Kieffer, III, Hartford, Conn., Robert N. Sayler, Edward J. Beder, Jr., John G. Buchanan, III, Washington, D.C., for defendant The Upjohn Co.
Robert B. Cohen, Dennis C. Cavanaugh, Hartford, Conn., for defendant Parke, Davis & Co.
Ralph G. Elliot, Robert L. Keepnews, Patrick W. Boatman, William S. Fish, Hartford, Conn., David L. Grove, Jeremy D. Mishkin, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant William H. Rorer, Inc.
Janet L. Lawler, Thomas J. Hagarty, Michael G. Durham, Hartford, Conn., for third-party defendant Continental Ins. Co.
Andrew J. O'Keefe, Denise Martino Phelan, Richard J. Kenny, Hartford, Conn., for third-party defendant Hartford Accident & Indemnity.
United States District Court, D. Connecticut.
RULING ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge:
The issue before the court on these cross-motions for summary judgment is the obligation of three insurance companies to defend and indemnify four pharmaceutical companies against product liability claims arising out of their production of the drug Diethylstilbestrol ("DES").1 The resolution of this issue requires an interpretation of the trigger...
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