Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. United States

OPINION

Katzmann, Judge:

This case concerns a surety company that issued bonds to multiple importers to cover duties imposed, under the United States’ customs laws, on entries of the importers’ goods into the national commerce. Despite billing the importers premium on these bonds, and accepting premium as to each bond, the surety now challenges the United States Customs agency’s demands for payments on the bonds. The surety alleges that, for a variety of reasons, defects in each of the bond forms at issue in this case void those bonds, nullifying Customs’ charges and releasing the surety from…