Parties in Insurance Dispute Vacate CMO, Agree to Stay Proceedings

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Parties involved in an asbestos and benzene insurance dispute have abandoned a scheduling order putting the case on track for trial sometime late this year, instead agreeing to stay the action for 90 days. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Cerro Flow Products, No. 05-384 (S.D. Ill.).

In a one-page order entered Jan. 13, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted the joint motion to stay the action for a three-month period.

In a joint report filed in August, Liberty Mutual and Cerro Flow Products Inc. agreed that depositions of both parties …