Legal Opinion
Albany Insurance Company v. Anh Thi Kieu
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 20, 1991No. 90-4218PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
Oblivious to the tangled mess it has left the practitioner to decipher, this Court has extended numerous — and often seemingly inconsistent — explanations of the appropriate choice of law in marine insurance disputes. Our task in the instant appeal is to untie the Gordian knot. Albany Insurance Company (“Albany”) challenges the district court’s declaration that appellee Anh Thi Kieu recover some $90,405 in damages and “sue and labor” charges under a marine insurance contract. The district court determined that Texas insurance law, and not federal maritime or Louisiana…
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