Legal Opinion
Robert Parrillo v. Commercial Union Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 1996No. 95-3947PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Robert Parrillo, the senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Parrillo, Weiss & O’Halloran, owned a beauty of a boat. Actually, “boat” doesn’t do it justice; it was a yacht— and a 77-footer no less. Parrillo had it custom built in 1985 in Ziarregio, Italy, at a cost of one million dollars. He christened it the Lascia Fare, Italian for the French laissez-faire.
According to Parrillo, nothing on his million-dollar yacht was “off-the-shelf’; everything was “custom, custom, custom.” Parrillo’s pursuit of perfection is perhaps epitomized by the wood paneling and…
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