Drug Test Co. Wants Negligence Coverage Suit Tossed

By Nick Brown

Law360, New York (April 20, 2010, 5:23 PM ET) -- A Kentucky drug testing company wants a federal court to toss a declaratory judgment suit from State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. over coverage of underlying negligence claims, saying the court lacks jurisdiction because it is not adjudicating the underlying suit.

Defendant Accurate Drug & DNA Testing Corp. said in a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Monday that letting the declaratory judgment suit continue before a federal judge would not settle the underlying controversy, and would create...
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