Scottsdale Insurance v. Homestead Land Development Corp.

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

BRAZIL, United States Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This Report and Recommendation is responsive to an order by the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen instructing us to “allocate costs between those which are reasonably related to defense of the slander claim and those which relate to uncovered claims.” Order filed April 11, 1991.

The lawsuit in this court that gives rise to this assignment is a declaratory relief action in which an insurer, Scottsdale Insurance Company (Scottsdale), is asking the court to fix the extent of its responsibility to its insured, Homestead Land…