Legal Opinion
Nippon Fire & Marine Insurance v. Skyway Freight Systems, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 1, 1999No. 98 CIV. 4489(DLC)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
COTE, District Judge.
The issue presented here is whether a shipper may recover from its common carrier or its common carrier’s sub-contractor the amount of its loss beyond that covered by the limitation of liability in its carrier’s airbill. The answer is no.
Plaintiff-Nippon Fire & Marine Ins. Co., Ltd. (“Nippon”) was the insurer of two shipments of laptop computers made by Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (“Toshiba”). Defendant Skyway Freight Systems, Inc. (“Skyway”), an air and ground carrier, agreed to ship the laptops and then contracted with defendant American…
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