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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 

NORTHERN DIVISION 

MAY’S DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, INC., 

 plaintiff, No. 06-702 MEF 

v. 

TOTAL CONTAINMENT, INC., et al., 

 defendants.

COMMERCE & INDUSTRY INSURANCE 

COMPANY OF CANADA, 

 intervenor-plaintiff, 

v. 

MAY’S DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, INC., 

 cross-defendant. 

 

RESPONSE BY COMMERCE & INDUSTRY INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA 

TO THE SUGGESTION OF BANKRUPTCY

Commerce & Industry Insurance Company of Canada (C&I) filed a motion to intervene 

(Doc. #60) and a memorandum in support (Doc. #61) on December 28, 2006. In its motion, C&I 

states that Total Containment, Inc. (TCI), a defendant, filed for bankruptcy on March 4, 2004. It 

further noted that May’s Distributing Co. Inc., the plaintiff, obtained a lift stay order from the 

bankruptcy court on December 14, 2004, that permits it to prosecute its case against TCI but 

execute a judgment only against TCI’s insurers. These facts have recently been brought the 

Court’s attention again by TCI’s filing a Suggestion of Bankruptcy (Doc. #81) and Plaintiff’s 

Response to the Suggestion of Bankruptcy (Doc. #82). C&I is seeking to intervene because 

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C&I, not TCI, may be liable for any judgment plaintiff obtains against TCI. Accordingly, C&I 

respectfully requests that the Court consider its motion to intervene, which no party has opposed, 

in the context of resolving the issue of the suggestion of bankruptcy. 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

/s/ S. Lisa Frost 

John W. Dodson, Esq. DOD012 

S. Lisa Frost, Esq. MOR065 

Ferguson, Frost & Dodson, LLP 

Post Office Box 430189 

Birmingham, Alabama 35243 

Telephone: (205) 879-8722 

Facsimile: (205) 879-8831 

Counsel for Commerce & Industry Insurance 

Company of Canada 

Richard W. Bryan, Esq. 

Paul D. Smolinsky, Esq. 

Jackson & Campbell, P.C. 

1120 Twentieth Street, N.W. 

Suite 300 

Washington, DC 20036 

Additional Counsel for Commerce & Industry 

Insurance Company of Canada 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 This is to certify that on this the 10th day of Ma7 2007, I electronically filed the 

foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of 

such filing to the following: 

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS FOR TICONA 

POLYMERS, INC. 

Lynn W. Jinks, III 

Christy Crow 

JINKS, DANIEL & CROW, LLC 

Post Office Box 350 

Union Springs, AL 36089 

334-738-4225 Phone 

Walter B. Calton 

Post Office Box 696 

Eufaula, AL 36072-0696 

334-687-2407 Phone 

334-687-2466 Fax 

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334-738-4229 Fax 

Russell Jackson Drake 

Nicola Thompson Drake 

WHATLEY DRAKE & KALLAS, LLC 

Post Office Box 10647 

Birmingham, AL 35202-0647 

205-328-9576 Phone 

205-328-9669 Fax 

Alan T. Rogers 

BALCH & BINGHAM, LLP 

Post Office Box 306 

Birmingham, AL 35201-0306 

205-251-8100 Phone 

205-266-8798 Fax 

Wesley L. Laird 

LAIRD, BAKER & BLACKSTOCK 

501 North Main Street 

Opp, AL 36467 

334-493-9716 Phone 

334-493-9715 Fax 

Paul A. Clark 

BALCH & BINGHAM, LLP 

Post Office Box 78 

Montgomery, AL 36101 

334-834-6500 Phone 

334-269-3155 Fax 

L. Cooper Rutland, Jr. 

RUTLAND AND BRASWELL, LLC 

208 North Prairie Street 

Union Springs, AL 36089 

334-738-4770 Phone 

334-738-4774 Fax 

Paul M. O’Conner, III 

Seth A. Moskowitz 

Jon Avins 

KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES 

& FRIEDMAN 

1633 Broadway 

New York, NY 10019-6799 

212-506-1917 Phone 

212-506-1800 Fax 

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ATTORNEYS FOR CLEVELAND 

TUBING, INC. 

ATTORNEYS FOR UNDERWRITERS 

LABORATORIES, INC. 

James H. McLemore 

CAPELL & HOWARD 

Post Office Box 2069 

Montgomery, AL 36102 

334-241-8058 Phone 

334-323-8888 Fax 

Walter E. McGowen 

GRAY, LANGFORD, SAPP, 

MCGOWAN, GRAY & NATHANSON 

Post Office Box 830239 

Tuskegee, AL 36083-0239 

334-727-4830 Phone 

334-727-5877 Fax 

T. Harold Pinkley 

MILLER & MARTIN, LLP 

1200 First Union Tower 

150 Fourth Avenue North 

Nashville, TN 37219 

615-744-8548 Phone 

615-744-8643 Fax 

Lynda M. Hill 

James T. Williams, IV 

MILLER & MARTIN, PLLC 

Volunter Bldg., Suite 1000 

832 Georgia Avenue 

Chattanooga, TN 37402-2289 

423-785-6600 Phone 

Charles Donald Marshall, III 

John Olinde 

Brent Arnold Talbot 

Robert S. Rooth 

CHAFFE, McCALL, PHILLIPS, TOLER 

& SARPY 

2300 Energy Centre 

1100 Poydras Street 

New Orleans, LA 70163 

504-585-7226 Phone 

504-544-6088 Fax 

423-785-8480 Fax 

ATTORNEYS FOR TOTAL 

CONTAINMENT, INC. 

Elliott Britton Monroe 

Jennifer McCammon Bedsole 

Rachel Ellen VanNortwick 

LLOYD, GRAY & WHITEHEAD, P.C. 

2501 Twentieth Place South 

Suite 300 

Birmingham, AL 35233 

205-967-8822 Phone 

205-967-2380 Fax 

Lindsey M. Glah 

William Pelosi 

OBERMEYER REBMANN MAXWELL 

& HIPPEL LLP 

One Penn Center, 19th Floor 

1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd 

ATTORNEYS FOR DAYCO 

PRODUCTS, INC. and 

MARK IV INDUSTRIES, LTD. 

Ann R. Koppel 

Donna M. Borrello 

James E. Blazek 

Richard B. Eason, II 

ADAMS and REESE LLP 

4500 One Shell Square 

New Orleans, LA 70139 

504-581-3234 Phone 

504-566-0210 Fax 

John David Whetstone 

ADAMS and REESE LLP 

Post Office Box 1348 

Mobile, AL 36633 

251-433-3234 Phone 

251-438-7733 Fax 

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Philadelphia, PA 19103-1895 

215-665-3000 Phone 

215-665-3165 Fax 

Brian Taggart Mosholder 

Joseph Terrace Carpenter 

Nathan Craig Prater 

CARPENTER PRATER INGRAM & 

MOSHOLDER LLP 

4121 Carmichael Road 

303 Sterling Centre 

Montgomery, AL 36106 

334-213-5600 Phone 

334-213-5650 Fax 

Kimberly Wallace Sayoc 

LIPPES SILVERSTEIN MATHIAS 

WEXLER LLP 

700 Guarantee Building 

28 Church Street 

Buffalo, NY 14202-3950 

716-853-5100 Phone 

716-853-5199 Fax 

 Larry Shane Seaborn 

Myron C. Penn 

PENN & SEABORN LLC 

Post Office Box 688 

Clayton, AL 36016 

334-775-9778 Phone 

334-775-9779 Fax 

/s/ S. Lisa Frost 

 OF COUNSEL 

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