Magistrate Partially Grants Contractor’s Discovery Request, Warns Counsel

Mealey's (March 30, 2021, 12:01 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal magistrate judge in Kansas on March 26 warned counsel for an insurance company and a general contractor about the proper way to handle discovery disputes in a suit over the insurer’s duty to defend and indemnify a masonry subcontractor that defaulted in a state court lawsuit brought by the contractor and granted in part the contractor’s motion to compel information about policies the insurer issued that might provide coverage to it....