Tomas Aguirre, Jr., Apolinar Compean, and Wilhelm Seafoods, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Company of New York

DYER, Circuit Judge:

Citizens Casualty Company, a marine insurer, appeals from the District Court’s judgment awarding damages to Tomas Aguirre, Jr., Apolinar Compean, and Wilhelm Seafoods, Inc., for the grounding of their shrimper O/S Miss Esmeralda. The insurer argues that the owners’ operation of the Miss Esmeralda with a two-man crew made the vessel unseaworthy at the time of the accident. Consequently, Citizens contends, the trial court erred in failing to hold that the owners’ breach of the express warranty of continuing seaworthiness in their AHAB marine hull insurance policy suspended…