Overton's, Inc. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Insurance (In Re SportStuff, Inc.)

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• reversing bankruptcy court’s approval of settlement with insurance carrier as not “fair and reasonable,” in part, because additional insureds did not consent or receive adequate compensation
• reversing bankruptcy court’s approval of settlement with insurance carrier as not “fair and reasonable,” in part, because additional insureds did not consent or receive adequate compensation
• bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction or authority to impair or extinguish independent contractual rights of vendors that were additional insureds under the debtor's policies
• settlement motion cannot be used to deprive non-settling party of its rights to be heard on the merits of its claims against settling party.
• “The opportunity to object to a settlement does not take the place of a trial on the merits [... ] litigants with pending claims [... ] had the right to a trial on the merits, inasmuch as Fed. R. Bank. P. 7001(7

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