Insurer Owes Trustee $3.5M In Policy Limits, Attorney Fees For Coverage Dispute

Mealey's (November 21, 2017, 1:18 PM EST) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A California federal bankruptcy judge on Nov. 16 entered a judgment of more than $3.5 million against an insurance company in a dispute over the amount of coverage owed to a company’s liquidating trust for asbestos personal injury claims, including attorney fees and a $60,000 penalty for the insurer’s “vexatious and unreasonable conduct” in the case (In re CFB Liquidating Corporation, f/k/a Chicago Fire Brick Co., et al., No. 01-45483, [Barry A. Chatz, as Trustee for the CFB/WFB Liquidating Trust v. Continental Casualty Company, No. 15-4136] N.D. Calif. Bkcy., 2017 Bankr. LEXIS 3938)....