Insurer Can’t File Cross-Claim Against Broker Of Contaminated Products Policy

(September 13, 2018, 11:09 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — An insurer involved in a contaminated products coverage dispute cannot file a cross-claim against the broker that handled the sale of the policy because the insurer failed to demonstrate good cause for allowing the cross-claim to be filed after the court’s deadline to submit amended pleadings, a Washington federal judge said Sept. 12 (National Frozen Foods Corp. v. Berkley Assurance Co., No. 17-339, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155621)....