Legal Opinion
Employers Insurance of Wausau v. El Banco De Seguros Del Estado
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 25, 2004No. 03-2484, 03-2771PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The proeedurally intricate litigation that has culminated in these twin appeals arises from a dispute between the parties to several contracts of reinsurance. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Employers Insurance of Wausau had reinsured certain of its insurance obligations with a number of insurance companies including an instrumentality of the Uruguayan government called El Banco de Seguros del Estado (“state insurance bank”). Wausau sustained losses from claims arising out of asbestos-related illness that it tried to offload on to the reinsurers. They resisted. Wausau…
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