Legal Opinion
Geovera Specialty Insurance v. Graham Rogers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2011No. 10-1943PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
GeoVera Specialty Insurance Co. (“GeoVera”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Graham Rogers, Inc. (“Graham”) on GeoVera’s claims for breach of contract and negligence. We affirm the grant of summary judgment to Graham on GeoVera’s negligence claim, but because we find that the agreement between GeoVera and Graham placed a duty on Graham to apply GeoVera’s underwriting guidelines to all applications for insurance submitted by its retailers under the terms of the contract, we reverse and remand for further proceedings on GeoVera’s breach of…
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