Legal Opinion
Richard Blanchard v. Peerless Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 5, 1992No. 91-1421PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Richard Blanchard appeals from a summary judgment dismissing his third-party beneficiary claim under a homeowners policy issued to James and Ann Brown by defendant Peerless Insurance Company (“Peerless”). The district court determined, as a matter of law, that the homeowners’ son, Paul Brown, was not a “covered person” within the meaning of the Peerless policy, because he was not a “resident” of the Brown family household at the time of the shooting incident which is the subject of the third-party beneficiary claim. We must scrutinize Rhode Island law for the…
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