U.S. Silica Insurance Action Stayed in Deference to California Case

NEW YORK - An insurance coverage action in New York involving indemnity for silica-related injury claims filed against U.S. Silica has been severed and stayed pending the outcome of a massive, consolidated action that has been ongoing in California for 15 years. ACE Fire Underwriters Ins. Co. v. ITT Industries Inc., No. 600133/2006 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., New York Cty.)

A New York County Supreme Court judge halted the case on July 19, finding that the California litigation involves substantially the same parties engaged in identical disputes over the scope of the same insurance policies at issue in the recently filed …