Legal Opinion
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Fag Bearings Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 29, 2003No. 01-3522PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Liberty), a general liability insurer, filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a determination that it had no duty to defend or indemnify one of its policyholders, FAG Bearings Corporation (FAG), in various class actions and administrative proceedings arising out of environmental contamination at FAG’s Joplin, Missouri plant. The district court 2 granted Liberty summary judgment, finding that FAG was precluded from relitigating the relevant issues regarding coverage because they had been decided in an earlier action between Liberty…
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