Sidney Binder, Inc. v. Jewelers Mutual Insurance

When the excess and obfuscation which cluttered the pleadings were discarded, the action emerged as a claim on an insurance policy to recover losses suffered by Sidney Binder, Inc. (the “store corporation”), in a burglary of its jewelry shop in Plymouth. Among the defenses set up by Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. (the “insurer”), was that the heist had been staged by, or for, Richard Binder, the principal officer of the store corporation. There were the usual cross salvos under G. L. c. 93A to add menace to the positions of the parties. Cf. International Fid. Ins. Co. v. Wilson, 387…