Grupo Protexa, S.A. v. All American Marine Slip

OPINION OF THE COURT

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This matter is before us on appeal from a judgment entered after we remanded the case to the district court when we reversed that court’s prior judgment. The ease involves claims by insureds under a marine insurance policy to recover the cost of removing their sunken vessel from a bay off the coast of Mexico. The policy covered costs for a removal of a sunken vessel if the removal was “compulsory by law.” The insureds claimed they had acted under such compulsion because they were responding to an order to remove the wreck issued by…