Legal Opinion
Ferrara & DiMercurio, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 7, 1999No. 98-1094, 98-1095PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
The commercial fishing vessel F/V TWO FRIENDS was destroyed by fire on July 3, 1993, while berthed in Gloucester, Massaehu-setts. Ferrara & DiMercurio, Inc. (“F & D”), the owner of the vessel, sought to recover insurance under a Hull policy issued by St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company (“St. Paul”). St. Paul refused to pay, on the alternative grounds that either a third party had burned the vessel, an event that, in St. Paul’s view, was expressly excluded from policy coverage, or else F & D had committed fraud by intentionally burning its own vessel. F &…
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