GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. v. AETNA CAS. & SUR. CO.

Nos. 2000-1984 and 2001-0493.

95 Ohio St.3d 512 (2002)

2002-Ohio-2842

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 26, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brouse McDowell, Paul A. Rose, Frank E. Quirk and Keven D. Eiber, for appellants Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Motor Wheel Corporation, Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, Hose Couplings Manufacturing, Inc., Divested Aerospace Corporation, as successor in interest to Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Goodyear Farms, Inc., and Brad Ragan, Inc.

Choate, Hall & Stewart, Kathleen A. Burdette and A. Hugh Scott; Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P., Daniel P. Mascaro, Susan E. Thomas and Jordan Berns, for appellees Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and Travelers Indemnity Company.

Hermann, Cahn & Schneider, Anthony J. Hartman and Hugh D. Berkson; Joseph B. Royster; Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey and Clay Phillips, for appellee Stonewall Insurance Company.

Lord, Bissell & Brook, Daniel I. Schlessinger, Hugh Griffin and Michael P. Comiskey; and Dennis Bartek, for appellees Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London, and the London Market Company.

Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews and James F. Mathews, for appellee Atlanta International Insurance Company.

Buckley King & Bluso and James W. Barnhouse; Cohn & Baughman and Michael J. Baughman, for appellees Century Indemnity Company (individually and as successor to policies issued by Insurance Company of North America), California Union Insurance Company, and U.S. Fire Insurance Company.

Clausen, Miller, Gorman, Caffrey & Witous, P.C., Margaret J. Orbon, Edward M. Kay and Amy R. Paulus; Janik & Dorman, Steven J. Danik and Andrew J. Dorman, for appellees AIU Insurance Company, Birmingham Fire Insurance Company, Granite State Insurance Company, Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, Lexington Insurance Company, and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Michael J. Balch; Roderick, Linton, L.L.P., Howard C. Walker, Jr. and Lawrence R. Bach, for appellees General Reinsurance Corporation, Old Republic Insurance Company, and Northstar Reinsurance Corporation, n.k.a. Signet Star Reinsurance Company.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, L.L.P., and Lourdes Slater; Kimball Ann Lane and Craig Brown; Rodgers & Co., L.P.A., and Walter A. Rodgers, for appellee Westport Insurance Company (f.k.a. Puritan Insurance Company).

Rodgers & Co., L.P.A., and Walter A. Rodgers, for appellee Government Employees Insurance Company.

Bates & Carey, Robert J. Bates, Maria G. Enriquez and Monica Sullivan; Ulmer & Berne and David L. Lester, for appellees Executive Risk Indemnity, Inc. (f.k.a. American Excess Insurance Company) and American Reinsurance Company.

Traub, Eglin, Lieberman & Straus, Robert P. Siegel, Meryl R. Lieberman and Stephen D. Straus; Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Paisley & Howley, L.L.P., Gary Johnson and Joseph M. Saponaro, for appellees Evanston Insurance Company and Northwestern National Insurance Company.

McNeal, Schick, Archibald & Biro Co., L.P.A., Robert D. Archibald and Brian T. Winchester; Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Michael W. Morrison and Dale Kurth, for appellee Allstate Insurance Company, successor in interest to Northbrook Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance Company.

Merlo, Kanofsky & Brinkmeier, Ltd., Ross D. Roloff and Michael R. Gregg; Roderick, Linton, L.L.P., and Lawrence R. Bach, for appellees Everest Reinsurance Company (f.k.a. Prudential Reinsurance Company) and Gibraltar Casualty Company (n.k.a. Mt. McKinley Insurance Company).

Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, Clay Phillips and Dennis Dolan; McMahon DeGulis Hoffmann & Blumenthal and Gregory DeGulis, for appellees International Insurance Company and International Surplus Lines Insurance Company.

Chadbourne & Parke, L.L.P., and Francisco Vazquez, for appellee Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company.

Connelly, Jackson, & Collier, L.L.P., and Steven R. Smith; Covington & Burling and Mitchell F. Dolin, urging reversal for amici curiae Babcox & Wilcox Company, B.F. Goodrich Company, Lincoln Electric Company, Millenium Chemicals, Inc., Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Oglebay Norton Company, Ohio Chemistry Technology Council, Owens Corning, PPG Industries, Inc., and Sherwin-Williams Company.

Goodman Weiss Miller, L.L.P., and Drew A. Carson; Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., Eugene R. Anderson and Richard P. Lewis; Law Office of Amy Bach and Amy Bach, urging reversal for amicus curiae United Policyholders.

Keener, Doucher, Curley & Patterson and Thomas Joseph Keener, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Insurance Environmental Litigation Association.


FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.

{¶ 1} In 1993, appellants, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and others (collectively "Goodyear"),1 filed this action against appellees Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and several other insurance companies (collectively the "insurers")2 seeking declaratory judgments concerning insurance claims for pollution cleanup...

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