Chesapeake Utilities Corp. v. American Home Assurance Co.

REVISED MEMORANDUM OPINION

LATCHUM, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This diversity action arises out of environmental contamination claims asserted by governmental entities against plaintiff Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (“Chesapeake”). (Docket Item [“D.I.”] 152 at 7-II.) Chesapeake alleges that as a result of these environmental claims, it was forced to incur certain costs for which it sought recovery from various insurance companies (“defendants” or “insurers”) which had written liability insurance policies for Chesapeake. (D.I. 152 at 1.) After these insurers refused to defend and…