Legal Opinion
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Travelers Indemnity Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 8, 1996No. 95-7039PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
If parties to a property management contract agree to take out insurance policies that name each other as additional insureds, and one party takes out a policy substantially inferior to what the contract requires, does that party’s breach of the property management contract defeat its claim against the other’s insurer as a named additional insured under that policy? To put it more generally, is a third-party beneficiary’s breach of its contract with the promisee a defense to the third-party beneficiary’s…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Massachusetts Turnpike Authority v. Perini Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
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