Granite State Ordered to Provide Reserves Information to Clearwater

NEW YORK - A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered Granite State Insurance Co. to produce consultants' studies relating to the adequacy of its reserves for asbestos exposures in a $44 million reinsurance dispute with Clearwater Insurance Co. Granite State Insurance Co. v. Clearwater Insurance Co., No. 09-10607 (S.D. N.Y.).

In a June 27 summary opinion, Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Granite State to produce "copies of any final reviews, analyses or studies, conducted by any consultants or other third parties, on the principal subject of the …