Insurance Company of North America v. Kayser-Roth Corp., 92-5248 (1999)

DECISION

Insurance Company of North America ("INA") filed this declaratory-judgment action in September 1992 seeking a declaration of the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of INA, its insured Kayser-Roth Corporation ("Kayser-Roth"), and some thirty other of Kayser-Roth's insurance carriers. Precipitating this action was an environmental-liability claim asserted against Kayser-Roth by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-75 ("CERCLA"). Kayser-Roth looked to its…