FIREMAN'S FUND INS. COMPANIES v. EX-CELL-O CORP.

Civ. A. No. 85-71371.

662 F.Supp. 71 (1987)

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANIES and American Insurance Company, Plaintiffs, v. EX-CELL-O CORPORATION, et al., Defendants. EX-CELL-O CORPORATION, et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. AIU INSURANCE COMPANY (successor to American International Insurance Company), et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

May 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Silberfeld, Rivkin, Leff & Radler, Garden City, N.Y., Robt. S. Cubbin, Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Robert B. Webster, Richard C. Sanders, Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait, Detroit, Mich., for Ex-Cell-O, McCord and Davidson; Eugene R. Anderson, Avraham C. Moskowitz, Steven P. Vincent, Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City, of counsel.

Raymond I. Foley, Jerome C. Gropman & Associates, Birmingham, Mich., Paul L. Gingras and Thomas L. Hamlin, Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan, Minneapolis, Minn., for Wausau Ins. Co.

Barry M. Kelman, Gofrank and Kelman, Southfield, Mich., for Travelers; H.G. Sparrow, III, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit, Mich., of counsel.

Stephen Ormond, Peter B. Kupelian, Southfield, Mich., for Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

Leonard B. Schwartz, Southfield, Mich., for Royal Indem.

Deborah A. Pitts, Robert A. Zeavin, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields, Chrystie & Younger, Los Angeles, Cal., for AIU Ins. Co. and Highland Ins. Co.

Stephen M. Kelley, Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C., Detroit, Mich., Mitchell L. Lathrop, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, San Diego, Cal., James R. Case, Kerr, Russell and Weber, Detroit, Mich., for St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Michael W. Hartmann, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, Detroit, Mich., Timothy C. Russell, Wilson M. Brown, III, Patricia A. Gotschalk, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, D.C., for Am. Motorists, Am. Manu. Mut. and Lumbermens Mut.

Charles C. Cheatham, Detroit, Mich., for American Employers Ins. Co.

David M. Tyler, Sullivan, Ward, Bone, Tyler, Fiott & Asher, Detroit, Mich., and Samuel B. Issacson, Pretzel, Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, Ill., for Prudential Re-Ins. Co.

Thomas F. Myers, Garan, Lucow, Miller, Seward, Cooper & Becker, P.C. Detroit, Mich., and Andrea Sykes Foote, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London and London Market Ins. Co.

Paul S. Koczkur, Harvey, Kruse, Westen & Milan, Detroit, Mich., for Mission Ins. Co., Mission Natl., and Integrity Ins. Co.

Bernard P. McClorey, Ronald G. Acho, T. Joseph Seward, Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, Livonia, Mich., for Hartford Acc. and Indem. Ins. Co.

Scott L. Gorland, Claudia V. Babiarz, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Detroit, Mich., Stephen Jacobs, Siff, Newman, Rosen & Parker, New York City, for First State Ins. Co. New England Reinsurance Corp.

James N. Martin, Martin, Bacon & Martin, P.C., Mt. Clemens, Mich., Thomas G. McHugh, for Pacific Employers Ins. Co.

William Jamieson and David Bocan, Deneberg, Tuffley, Bocan, Jamieson, Black, Hopkins & Ewald, Southfield, Mich., for Northbrook Excess and Surplus Ins. Co. (NESCO) n/k/a Allstate Ins. Co.

J.R. Zanetti, Jr., Highland & Currier, P.C., Southfield, Mich., for Transport Indem. Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

FEIKENS, District Judge.

Ex-Cell-O Corporation ("Ex-Cell-O"), its subsidiary McCord Gasket Corporation ("McCord"), and McCord's subsidiary Davidson Rubber Company ("Davidson") ("policyholders") move for partial summary judgment declaring the duty of Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies ("Fireman's Fund"), Wausau Insurance Companies ("Wausau"), and Zurich Insurance Company ("Zurich") ("primary insurers" or "insurers")1<...

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