Legal Opinion
Tropigas De Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Certain Underwriters
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 11, 2011No. 10-1122PublishedCited by 211 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case is an exercise in summary judgment practice. It involves a dispute about whether sums are due under a certificate of insurance issued by certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London (Lloyd’s) to plaintiff-appellant Tropigas de Puerto Rico, Inc. The district court opined that the plaintiff had failed to adduce facts sufficient to show the existence of a covered loss and granted summary judgment for Lloyd’s. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
We rehearse the facts in the light most agreeable to the plaintiff (the party resisting summary judgment). Suarez v. Pueblo Int’l, Inc.,…
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