Delaware Judge Stays Exposure Coverage Suit Until Similar Suit Is Resolved

(January 29, 2024, 2:14 PM EST) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware state judge on Jan. 26 stayed a suit filed by two insurers seeking a declaration regarding their coverage obligations to insureds for underlying bodily injury suits arising out of exposure to the release of ethylene oxide (EtO) from the insureds’ sterilization plants after determining that a suit pending in Illinois state court filed by one of the insureds prior to the insurers’ Delaware suit should be resolved first as the Illinois suit involves the same coverage issues and parties....