505 S.E.2d 870 (N.C. 1998) The HOME INDEMNITY COMPANY, the Home Insurance Company, and City Insurance Company, v. HOECHST CELANESE CORPORATION; Aetna Casualtys&sSurety Company; AIU Insurance Company; Allstate Insurance Company; American Centennial Insurance Company; American Home Assurance Company; American Motorist Insurance Company; American Professionals Insurance Company; American Re-insurance Company; Associated International Insurance Company; Birmingham Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania; California Union Insurance Company; Centennial Insurance Company; Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London and Certain London Market Insurance Companies; Certain Underwriting Syndicates of the Illinois Insurance Exchange; Certain Underwriting Syndicates of the Insurance Exchange of the Americas; CIGNA Insurance Company; Columbia Casualty Company; Commercial Union Insurance Companies; Continental Casualty Company; Continental Insurance Company; Crums&sForster Insurance Company; Employers Insurance of Wausau, a Mutual Company; Employers Mutual Casualty Company; Eric Reinsurance Company; Excess Insurance Company, Limited; Federal Insurance Company; Fireman's Fund Insurance Company; First State Insurance Company; Fremont Indemnity Insurance Company; Gibraltar Casualty Company; Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO); Harbor Insurance Company; Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company; Highlands Insurance Company; Hudson Insurance Company; Insurance Company of North America; Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania; International Surplus Lines Insurance Company; Lexington Insurance Company; London Guarantee and Insurance Company of New York; Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Insurance Company; Meadows Syndicate, Inc.; National Casualty Company; National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, P.A.; New England Insurance Company; New England Reinsurance Company; North River Insurance Company; North Star Reinsurance Corporation; Northwestern National Casualty Company; Northwestern National Insurance Company; Pacific Insurance Company; Progressive American Insurance Company; Prudential Reinsurance Company; Royal Indemnity Company; Signal Insurance Company; St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company; Stonewall Insurance Company; Tortuga Casualty Insurance Company; The Travelers Indemnity Company; Twin City Fire Insurance Company; Vik Re Syndicate, Inc.; Underwriters Reinsurance Company; United Insurance Companies, Inc.; X.L. Insurance Company Limited; Zurich Insurance Company. No. 45P98. Supreme Court of North Carolina. April 2, 1998 Linda B. Foster, Atlanta, GA, J. Daniel Bishop, Charlotte, for Travelers Casualty and Surety.
J. Reed Johnston, Jr., Greensboro, for Employers Mutual Casualty Co.
Jay S. Day, for AIU Ins. Co., Birmingham et al.
Judith Fournie Helms, Chicago, IL, James C. Windham, Jr., Martha Thompson, Gastonia, for American Motorist Ins. Co., et al.
John Brem Smith, Charlotte, for Assoc. Internat'l Ins. Co., Progressive Am. Ins. Co.
Wendy L. Mager, Princeton, NJ, for Centennial Ins. Co.
Vicky Kaiser Russell, Chicago, IL, for Century Indemnity Co.
Jackson Steele, Charlotte, Henry Lee, for Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's.
Richard S. Feldman, for Commercial Union Ins. Co.
Laurence McHeffey, Denver, CO, for North River Ins. Co., Carum.
Stephanie H. Autry, Raleigh, for Federal Ins. Co.
Louis G. Adolfsen, New York, NY, for Hartford Accidents&sIndem. Co.
David R. Poe, Pittsburgh, PA, for Hudson Ins. Co.
Jeffrey N. German for Stonewall Ins. Co.
Irvin W. Hankins, III, Josephine H. Hicks, Charlotte, for Hoechst Celanese Corp.
Richard Bennett, Winston-Salem, for Commercials&sFireman's Fund Ins.
Lindsay R. Davis, Jr., Greensboro, for Crums&sForster Ins. Co., et al.
Barbara B. Weyher, Raleigh, for Northfield Insurance Company.
Prior report: 128 N.C.App. 189, 494 S.E.2d 774.
ORDER
Upon consideration of the petition filed by Defendant (Hoechst) in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 2nd day of April 1998."