Continental Casualty Company, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. Robsac Industries, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Robsac Industries (“Robsac”) appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment for Continental Casualty Company (“Continental”) on Continental’s action for declaratory relief and its summary denial of Robsac’s motion to stay the declaratory relief action pending the outcome of a parallel state court proceeding on the merits. This case raises the oft recurring problem of the proper role of the federal courts in the resolution of disputes relating to obligations under insurance policies, an area primarily within the jurisdiction of the state courts. We…