In Re CVA General Contractors, Inc.

Memorandum on Motion For Authority To Use Corporate-Debtor’s Name

LEIF M. CLARK, Bankruptcy Judge.

Many insurance disputes caught in the sticky web of bankruptcy law, pit the insurer against the insured. This case does not. Instead, the insurer and the insured are allied. Their foe? A third-party defendant, who is being sued by the insurer (in the name of the insured), and who challenges the insured’s capacity to sue the third-party defendant or who at the least wants the insurer’s own name, Mt. Hawley Insurance Company, to brightly flash before the eyes of jurors hearing the case.

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