Rapid-American Protests Insurers’ Subpoenas To Claims-Processing Facilities

(August 18, 2017, 1:09 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Chapter 11 debtor Rapid-American Corp. and the asbestos claimants in its case asked a New York federal bankruptcy judge on Aug. 15 to stop the debtor’s insurers from enforcing subpoenas they issued to six asbestos claims-processing facilities, saying the subpoenas are “facially overbroad and seek material that is wholly irrelevant” to the issues in an insurance coverage adversary action (Rapid-American Corporation, et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, et al., No. 15-01095, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.)....