Two of Mission's reinsurers are seeking removal of judge.(Allstate Insurance Co.'s case against Mission Insurance Co.)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, December, 1996 by Lonkevich, Dan

A California Superior Court judge's removal as arbiter in a dispute between reinsurers and the liquidator of Missions Ins. Co. could lead to the magistrates removal in two other related cases. Allstate Ins. Co. has asked the California Court of Appeals to remove Judge Kurt J. Lewin from its dispute with Mission's liquidator on the same grounds that an appellate court panel removed the magistrate in the dispute between Copenhagen Reins.

Co. Ltd. and Mission's liquidators. At issue in the Allstate case is whether Judge Lewin should be permitted to rule on Allstate's ability to use the so-called setoff defense in a related federal court proceeding. The setoff defense, which also was at Issue In the Copenhagen Re case, refers to a legal doctrine allowing a...

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