West Side Salvage, Inc. v. RSUI Indemnity Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

REAGAN, Chief District Judge:

A. Introduction and Procedural Overview

The present litigation stems from the outcome of a jury trial before this Court in the spring of 2012. The underlying litigation concerned a grain elevator explosion on April 27, 2010, at a facility belonging to Con Agra. In the underlying suit — by indi*732vidual plaintiffs (John Jentz and Robert Schmidt) and a corporation (Con Agra)— the jury returned verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs to the tune of $21 million dollars for the individual plaintiffs’ and $3 million dollars for Con Agra.1 West Side carried…