Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (In Re Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MAROVICH, District Judge.

In this action, which was originally brought by plaintiff Forty-Eight Insula-tions as a voluntary bankruptcy petition, plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against twenty-two insurance companies to determine the insurers’ obligations under various insurance policies for defense and indemnity of asbestos-related claims. Before the court are the motions of the defendant insurers for an order joining Foster Wheeler Corporation as a necessary party under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19(a). For the following reasons, the court…