Hanover Ordered to Provide Details of Global Drywall Settlement to Va. Builder

NORFOLK, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has ordered an insurer to reveal information about a global settlement it claims to have reached in all litigation involving two insureds that were sued for supplying and installing Chinese drywall in homes throughout the state. Dragas Management Corp. v. The Hanover Insurance Co., et al., No. 10-547 (E.D. Va.).

In a May 11 order, Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia gave The Hanover Insurance Co. a week to provide Dragas Management Co. with details of the settlement, which Hanover says it reached …