Legal Opinion
Skandia America Reinsurance Corp. v. Schenck
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 21, 1977No. 74 Civ. 5470, 75 Civ. 120PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GAGLIARDI, District Judge.
This consolidation of two federal statutory interpleader actions raises a novel issue of insurance law. The plaintiff-stakeholders are reinsurance companies and underwriters who entered into reinsurance treaties several years ago with a presently insolvent casualty insurer. These treaties obligate plaintiffs, Skandia America Reinsurance Corporation (“Skandia”), General Reinsurance Corporation (“General Reinsurance”), and Peter Frank Tiarks and Francis Everett Brander, Lead Underwriters for Lloyd’s of London (“Lloyd’s”), to indemnify the insurer for liability on the…
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