Opinion ID: 155990
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Text: 1 Plaintiff Frontier Refining, Inc. (Frontier) brought an action for equitable implied indemnity against Gorman-Rupp Co., Inc. (Gorman-Rupp) in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. Frontier sought to recover approximately $19.25 million paid to settle personal injury claims made against Frontier and its affiliated companies after an explosion and fire at the Frontier Refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Frontier appeals the district court's rulings allowing discovery, and receipt as trial evidence, of materials protected by the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. It also appeals the district court's ruling which allowed joinder of Frontier's liability insurers as real parties in interest. Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we REVERSE and REMAND.