Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Crist

MEMORANDUM OPINION

H. FRANKLIN WATERS, Chief Judge.

I. The Litigation

This is exceptionally complex litigation between Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., one of the largest retail concerns in the country, and the Receiver of an insolvent insurance carrier, Transit Casualty Company, which wrote workers’ compensation insurance covering Wal-Mart’s employees in eighteen states in which Wal-Mart then had facilities.

The litigation started as a declaratory judgment action filed by Wal-Mart against Transit (prior to it being declared insolvent) seeking to enforce the provisions of an agreement that it says it…