Legal Opinion
Medina-Padilla v. United States Aviation Underwriters, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 4, 2016No. 15-1467PPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This is the second time the plaintiffs have brought the same claims before the federal courts. This time, they characterize the claims as sounding in tort rather than sounding in contract, as they had claimed earlier. This they cannot do.
In 2005, Lopez & Medina Corp. (“L & M”) brought suit against a number of insurers, claiming that the insurers were liable for L & M’s breach of contract claims against a company, Patriot Air, LLC (“Patriot Air”), that had an insurance policy with those insurers. In 2010, the district court dismissed the case on the basis that the…
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