Mealey's (April 28, 2021, 12:37 PM EDT) -- MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama on April 26 ruled that the court should preside over an insurance company’s declaratory judgment lawsuit against a homebuilder and its owner and five individuals involved in state court construction defects lawsuits against the builder, finding that dismissing or staying the case would be unproductive and waste judicial resources because the insurer’s suit over its duty to defend is related only to the state court actions....