Wiesel v. Guiffrida

MEMORANDUM

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

A non-jury trial was held before this Court on a commercial crime insurance policy issued to the plaintiff, Joseph Wiesel, by the defendant, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Plaintiff, the owner of a lighting fixture store on North 2nd Street in Philadelphia, sought to recover $6,000.00 for a burglary loss at his store on October 16, 1982. FEMA refused to pay the plaintiff for his burglary loss on the ground that the plaintiff failed to produce adequate documentation concerning the property taken in the burglary. For the reasons…