M.H. DETRICK CO. v. CENTURY INDEM. CO.

No. 1-97-0027.

701 N.E.2d 156 (1998)

299 Ill. App.3d 620

233 Ill.Dec. 513

M.H. DETRICK COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTURY INDEMNITY COMPANY, as Successor to Insurance Company of North America; Cigna Fire Underwriters Insurance Company, as Successor to Aetna Fire Underwriters Insurance Company; and TIG Insurance Company, as Successor to Transamerica Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mauck, Bellande & Cheely of Cook County, Chicago (Daniel J. Cheely and Paul B. O'Flaherty, Jr., of counsel); Covington & Burling, Washington, DC (Mitchell F. Dolin, Bette M. Orr and Susan M. Lyons, of counsel), and Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, DC (Mark A. Packman, Bette M. Orr and Joshua S. Kans, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC (Lynn Bregman, Carol H. Fishman and John Maull, of counsel), and Cohn & Russell of Cook County, Chicago (William M. Cohn and Michael J. Baughman, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.


Justice QUINN delivered the opinion of the court:

This declaratory judgment action involves a dispute over the scope of insurance coverage provided by defendants to plaintiff. On October 16, 1996, the circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants pursuant to section 2-1005 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. 735 ILCS 5/2-1005 (West 1996). On appeal, plaintiff maintains that: (1) the circuit court erred in finding that a subsequent agreement...

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