London Market Insurers Ordered to Produce Reinsurance Agreements in Environmental Coverage Dispute

NEW YORK — A group of London Market Insurers must produce all reinsurance agreements that relate to policies under which Amtrak is seeking indemnity in an environmental coverage action, a New York federal judge has ruled in denying the insurers’ motion for a protective order.

On May 16, Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that Rule 26(a)(1)(A)(iv) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which requires production of “any insurance agreement under which an insurer may be liable to satisfy all or part of a possible judgment in …