Legal Opinion
Assurance Company of America, a Maryland Corporation v. Wall & Associates LLC of Olympia, a Washington Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2004No. 02-35992PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Wall & Associates (“Wall”) appeals the district court’s grant of Assurance Company of America’s (“Assurance”) motion for summary judgment and the denial of Wall’s cross-motion for summary judgment. In this contract interpretation case, the district court concluded that the policy language for collapse coverage required a “sudden falling down,” which, the court found, Wall did not demonstrate. As there was no collapse and thus no coverage, the district court also deemed all of the collateral issues moot or irrelevant.
The district court erred in interpreting…
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