Zurich Insurance Co. v. Killer Music, Inc.

998 F.2d 674 1993 Copr.L.Dec. P 27,125 ZURICH INSURANCE CO. (U.S. BRANCH), Plaintiff-Counter-defendant-Appellee, v. KILLER MUSIC, INC., dba: HLC Partnership; TTBB, Inc., dba: Killer Tracks; Ron Hicklin, Defendants-Counter-claimants-Appellants. No. 92-55035. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 4, 1992. Decided July 6, 1993. Hayward J. Kaiser, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-counter-claimants-appellants. Lane J. Ashley and Kristen E. Meredith, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-counter-defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before: BEEZER, KOZINSKI and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. BEEZER, Circuit Judge: 1 Killer Music, Inc., doing business as HLC Partnership; TTBB, Inc., doing business as Killer Tracks; and Ron Hicklin (collectively, "Killer Music") appeal the district court's grant of Zurich Insurance Co.'s ("Zurich") motion for summary judgment on Zurich's declaratory judgment action and the dismissal of Killer Music's counterclaims on a motion for summary judgment. The issues are whether Zurich had a duty to…