In Re Dana Corp.

The relator, Dana Corporation, filed a petition for writ of mandamus to challenge the trial court’s discovery ruling in the underlying asbestos litigation. The real parties in this proceeding, who consist of approximately 1,260 plaintiffs in the underlying case, sought production of Dana’s insurance policies since 1930 and also sought to learn the amount of insurance remaining under those policies. The trial court ordered Dana, the defendant in the underlying proceeding, to produce “exact duplicates of any and all commercial general liability insurance policies ... from 1930 to the present.”…