CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S v. Boeing Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE QUINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, and Certain London Market Insurance Companies 1 sought a judicial declaration of their obligations under reinsurance and direct insurance contracts involving defendant Astro Limited (Astro), serving as both the reinsured and direct, captive insurer, and defendant Boeing Company (Boeing), the direct insured. The circuit court of Cook County granted defendants’ motion to stay plaintiffs’ declaratory judgment action. Plaintiffs filed this interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court…