WEST AMERICAN INSURANCE CO. v. TUFCO FLOORING EAST

Nichols, Caffrey, Hill, Evans Murrelle, by William L. Stocks

Douglas E. Wright, for plaintiff-

Tuggle, Duggins, Meschan, by Robert C. Cone, for defendant-appellees Tufco Flooring East

Tufco Flooring Sales Service

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey Leonard, by George W. House,

Piper Marbury, by Jeffrey F. Liss, for defendant-appellee Perdue

Elrod Lawing, P.A., by Frederick K. Sharpless, on behalf of the Insurance Environmental Litigation Association, amicus

Harold W. Berry, Jr., on behalf of the North Carolina Petroleum Marketers Association,

, amicus