Insurer Says Drywall MDL is No Place for Florida Coverage Cases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - An insurance company that filed a declaratory judgment action against a general contractor-insured is fighting efforts to transfer the case from Florida to the federal Chinese Drywall MDL in Louisiana, citing marked differences in the way the two states interpret insurance policies and determine coverage obligations. In Re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2047 (JPML); General Fidelity Ins. Co. v. Foster, et al., No. 09-80743 (S.D. Fla.).

General Fidelity Insurance Co. filed a brief Nov. 2 before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) in response to a filing by the federal MDL's plaintiffs' steering …