Hopps v. Utica Mutual Insurance

The plaintiff seeks to collect the amount of fire coverage under a homeowner’s insurance policy. The superior court dismissed the action after applying the doctrine of collateral estoppel to preclude the plaintiff’s relitigation of an issue decided against him when he was earlier convicted of arson in burning the insured building. We affirm.

This is the third case in this court dealing with the fire that dam*509aged the present plaintiff’s house in 1981, and we refer to reports of the earlier appeals for their statements of the facts. In State v. Hopps, 123 N.H. 541, 465 A.2d 1206 (1983) we…