Progress Marine, Inc. v. Foremost Insurance Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

Progress Marine, Inc. (PMI) appeals the District Court’s 1 denial of its claim against Foremost Insurance Company (Insurer) for expenses incurred in removing the wreck of a Jackup Workover Barge (PM II) which sank some 11 miles off the Louisiana coast. PM II was covered by a marine P&I insurance policy which provided recovery for wreck removal expenses when “such removal is compulsory by law.” Because we find that the District Court erred in its interpretation of the term “compulsory by law”, and accordingly applied an improper legal standard in the resolution of…