Legal Opinion
Fednav International Ltd. v. Continental Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 1, 2010No. 08-2650PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPRINGMANN, District Judge.
Seeking damages for attorney’s fees, costs, and expenses incurred in earlier litigation between the parties, Fednav International Ltd. (Fednav) sued Continental Insurance Company (Continental) for breach of contract. The district court dismissed Fednav’s case for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In 2001, three separate vessels carried shipments of steel from Ghent, Belgium, to Burns Harbor, Indiana. The steel was damaged in transit. In 2002, Continental, the subrogee of the owner of the damaged steel, sued Fednav (the…
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