Hugh Devries v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company

BONSAL, Senior District Judge.

The defendant, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. (“St. Paul”), appeals from a judgment entered following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, Devine, C.J., in favor of plaintiffs Hugh and Elizabeth deVries for $404,592.50 and in favor of Plaintiff Bubbling Brook School, Inc. for $75,000. The plaintiffs brought this diversity action to recover the proceeds of a fire insurance policy issued by St. Paul and to recover damages beyond the policy limits by reason of St. Paul’s alleged bad faith in denying the…