Settling Insurers Say Stay Against Contribution Claims Should Remain In Place

(January 21, 2020, 9:03 AM EST) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington federal bankruptcy court’s denial of an insurer’s bid to vacate a stay order barring its contribution claims against other insurers for asbestos claims against Chapter 11 debtor Fraser’s Boiler Service Inc. is only an interlocutory ruling and is therefore not appealable, the other insurers, who have settled with the debtor, say in a Jan. 10 appellee brief in federal court (National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA v. Fraser’s Boiler Service, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-5648, W.D. Wash.)....