Insurers Move to Remand Transferred MDL Coverage Action to Ga.

NEW ORLEANS - An insurance company that fought unsuccessfully to keep its Chinese drywall declaratory judgment action out of the MDL has moved to remand the case, claiming it is identical to ones the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused to transfer earlier this year. Owners Insurance Co. v. Mitchell Company Inc., et al., No. 10-1036 (E.D. La.).

In a July 24 motion to remand, Owners Insurance Co. and Auto-Owners Insurance Co. says that the case it filed in October 2009 to determine coverage obligations for a class action brought by The Mitchell Co. against its insured, Rightway Drywall, belongs …