Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc. v. Westport Insurance

MEMORANDUM *

Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc., appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Westport Insurance Corp. and Allianz Insurance Co. on Todd’s claim for insurance benefits. We affirm.(1) Washington law permits one year limitation clauses in insurance contracts,1 and Todd does not persuade us that tolling, equitable2 or otherwise,3 would be proper under Washington law. Thus, Todd’s action was barred.(2) Todd also asserts that removal of the action from state to federal court was procedurally defective,4 but whether there *535was a procedural defect or not, Westport’s joining in…