Legal Opinion
General Refractories Co. v. First State Insurance
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 27, 2012No. Civil Action No. 04-3509PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LUDWIG, District Judge.
All of the eleven defendants in this action again move for summary judgment (doc. no. 346 sealed).1 Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. *384See footnote 1 for case history. Jurisdiction is diversity. 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
Plaintiff General Refractories Company (GRC), a manufacturer and supplier of asbestos-containing products, sued its insurance carriers for a declaration of excess liability insurance coverage in some 33,000 underlying asbestos-related suits pending throughout the United States.2 GRC purchased the insurance policies between 1979 and 1985. After defendants denied…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Orson, Inc. T/a Roxy Screening Rooms v. Miramax Film Corp. Orson, Inc., D/b/a/ Roxy Screening RoomsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1996
- Gray v. Nationwide Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
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3Cited by1 opinion
- York International Corp. v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 2015