Associated Aviation Underwriters v. George Koch Sons, Inc.

OPINION

DARDEN, Judge

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Associated Aviation Underwriters (AAU) appeals from a declaratory judgment determining that AAU’s “all-risks” insurance policy issued to George Koch Sons, Inc. (Koch) provided coverage for engine damage to Koch’s aircraft.

We affirm.

ISSUE

Whether the trial court’s judgment determining that an “all-risk” policy issued by AAU provided coverage for Koch’s property loss is clearly erroneous.

FACTS

In 1993, Koch purchased a 1986 Cessna Citation S/II aircraft. Over a two-year period, the aircraft’s instruments never indicated that either of the aircraft’s two…