Insurer’s Reinsurance Information Not Relevant to Choice-Of-Law Issue, Ind. Judge Rules

INDIANAPOLIS — A magistrate judge properly denied a policyholder’s motion to compel National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh to produce reinsurance information in an environmental coverage dispute, finding the information is not relevant to the choice-of-law issue, a federal judge has ruled.

Chief Judge Richard A. Young of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana found the magistrate judge’s findings were not “clearly erroneous or contrary to law.”

This coverage action arose from soil and groundwater contamination at Visteon’s Connersville, Ind., plant. During the relevant time period, 2000-2002, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh and …