The Home Insurance Company of Illinois v. Adco Oil Company

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• finding that the district court had committed no reversible error in failing to refer the matter to the bankruptcy court because, in part, neither of the parties challenged the district court’s decision to hear the case
• A court may not enter default judgment in a suit against multiple defendants “until the matter has been resolved as to all.”
• courts may not enter default judgment in a suit against multiple defendants “until the matter has been resolved as to all”
• first citing UNR Indus., 942 F.2d at 1103; then citing Xonics, 813 F.2d at 131–32; then citing §157(b)(3); and then citing §1334(b)
• “Illinois gives insureds a ‘reasonable’ time to notify insurers under occurrence policies. A claims-made policy imposes a more rigid notice requirement, because it links coverage to the claim and notice rather than to the injury”
• district court erred in aligning insured with insurer rather than with injured party because “the normal alignment of parties in a suit seeking a declaratory judgment of noncoverage is [i]nsurer versus [i]nsured and [i]njured [p]arty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).