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JOHN CRANE, INC. v. ADMIRAL INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 1-09-3240.

2013 IL App (1st) 093240

JOHN CRANE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. ADMIRAL INSURANCE COMPANY, AMERICAN MOTORISTS INSURANCE COMPANY, FIRST STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY, LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY, and TWIN CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS OF LONDON, and CERTAIN LONDON MARKET INSURANCE COMPANIES, including Excess Insurance Company, Ltd., General Reinsurance Corporation, River Thames Insurance Company, World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation, and John Does 1 through 400, Defendants, (Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company, Allstate Insurance Company, AIU Insurance Company, American Re-Insurance Company, Granite State Insurance Company, Lexington Insurance Company, National Surety Corporation, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, Insurance Company of North America, and TIG Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees; Columbia Casualty Company, Continental Casualty Company, and The Continental Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

March 5, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin M. Forde, Ltd., 111 West Washington Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60602, ( Kevin M. Forde and Joanne R. Driscoll , of counsel), for APPELLANT.

Nisen & Elliott LLC, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, IL 60606, ( Michael J. Daley and Claire E. Gorman , of counsel), for APPELLANT.

Farella Braun & Martell, LLP, 235 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104, ( John L. Cooper , Dennis M. Cusack and Erica Villanueva , of counsel), for APPELLANT.

Troutman Sanders LLP, 55 West Monroe Street, Suite 3000, Chicago, IL 60603, ( Rebecca L. Ross , Clinton E. Cameron , David F. Cutter and Stephanie L. Haas , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Bates Carey Nicolaides, LLP, 191 North Wacker, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60606, ( Catherine M. Crisham , Kristi S. Nolley , Ellen J. Zabinski and Agelo L. Reppas , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Smith Amundsen LLC, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3300, Chicago, IL 60601, ( Timothy J. Fagan and Michael L. Resis , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Clausen Miller P.C., 10 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60603, ( Mary F. Stafford , Colleen A. Beverly and Melinda S. Kollross , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Cozen & O'Connor, 333 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1900, Chicago, IL 60606, ( John D. LaBarbera , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., Three First National Plaza, 70 West Madison Street, Suite 4000, Chicago, IL 60602, ( Robert R. Anderson III , John Hughes and Daniel A. Waitzman , of counsel), for APPELLEE.

Justices Quinn and Connors concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARRIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 Plaintiff John Crane, Inc. (Crane), appeals the circuit court's judgment on its first amended complaint against defendants Columbia Casualty Company, Continental Casualty Company, Continental Insurance Company (collectively referred to as CNA), TIG Insurance Company (TIG), and Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company, Munich Reinsurance America, Inc., f/k/a America...

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