Andrade v. Jennings

Opinion

KREMER, P. J.

Intervener Manuel J. Andrade appeals a judgment after jury trial favoring defendant Dennis Edward Jennings (sued as Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London) on Andrade’s complaint-in-intervention for declaratory relief and breach of contract. Attacking the jury’s special verdicts sustaining Jennings’s defense of collusion, Andrade contends such defense was barred as a matter of law and unsupported by substantial evidence. We affirm the judgment.

I

Introduction

Jennings issued an excess liability policy to tuna boat captain Andrade’s employer. Suffering shipboard injury, Andrade made…