Legal Opinion
Brazas Sporting Arms, Inc. v. American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided July 30, 1999No. CIV.A. 97-30186-MAPPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM REGARDING DEFENDANTS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND PLAINTIFFS MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
(Docket Nos. 24 & 30)
PONSOR, District Judge.
Brazas Sporting Arms, Inc. (“Brazas”) is a wholesale distributor of firearms located in Monson, Massachusetts. Between the year 1992 and 1997 the defendant American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Company (“American”) sold three identical “commercial general liability” insurance policies to Brazas.
All of these policies contained an exclusion covering a so-called “products” hazard. This provision excluded coverage for “all bodily injury and…
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- Continental Casualty Co. v. Gilbane Building Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Colony Insurance Co. v. H.R.K., Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)1987
- Rhinebeck Bicycle Shop, Inc. v. Sterling InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
- Pennsylvania General Insurance v. KielonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Brazas Sporting Arms, Inc. v. American Empire Surplus Lines InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000