Phillip Ferrell Thomas Ferrell Clay Lowry Donny Lowry v. West Bend Mutual Insurance Company

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, West Bend Mutual Insurance Company (“West Bend”) appeals an adverse decision of the district court 1 following a bench trial, and also challenges the court’s imposition of attorney’s fees and prejudgment interest. We affirm.

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In 1999, Arkansas tomato growers Phillip and Tommy Ferrell and Clay and Donny Lowry (“the tomato growers” or “growers”) purchased from Hi-Tech Film, Inc. (“Hi-Tech”) a plastic film meant to prevent soil from splashing onto their plants and causing blight. The tomato growers rolled the film over their fields, but after…