Legal Opinion
Level 3 Communications, Inc. v. Federal Insurance Company and Pacific Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1999No. 98-2094PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This diversity suit, governed by Nebraska law (though no peculiarities of that law bear on the case), seeks $14 million in damages for breach of a contract of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance. Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc. was sued along with one of its directors in 1994 by six (two others joined later, making eight) of its minority shareholders for securities fraud and related torts. Kiewit’s successor seeks through the present suit, which is against its primary and .excess insurers (but we’ll ignore the latter, and pretend there is just one insurance company,…
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