United States Tenth Circuit

In a suit brought by a company seeking damages and declaratory relief for defendants-European insurers' alleged breach of insurance policies in relation to certain asbestos claims, grant of the insurers' motions to dismiss is affirmed and the appeal dismissed as the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over the insurers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2007
• Published 06/13/2007

Judges

• TACHA, Circuit Judge., Before, TACHA, Chief Judge, BALDOCK, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth H. Frenchman, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, New York, N.Y. (Robin L. Cohen, Dorothy A. Thomas, and Andrew N. Bourne, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, New York, NY, and Michael J. Abrams, Lathrop & Gage, LLC, Kansas City, MO, with him on the briefs), appearing for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas W. Brunner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC (Richard A. Ifft and Karalee C. Morell, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC;  Dan Biles, Gates Biles Shields & Ryan P.A., Overland Park, Kansas;  Norman C. Kleinberg, Derek J.T. Adler, William J. Beausoleil, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York, NY, Michael G. Norris, Norris & Keplinger, L.L.C., Overland Park, Kansas, Richard J. Geddes, Kirk C. Jenkins, and Frank E. Valenti, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP, Chicago, Illinois, and Timothy M. O'Brien and Neely L. Fedde, Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Overland Park, Kansas, with him on the brief), appearing for Defendants-Appellees.