Legal Opinion
Mount Vernon Fire Insurance Co. v. Visionaid, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 15, 2017No. 15-1351P2PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Prologue
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity-based declaratory-judgment action governed (all agree) by Massachusetts substantive law. See Erie R.R. Co, v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 78, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938). The case pits an insured, VisionAid, against its employment-practices liability insurer (say that ten times fast!), Mount Vernon (each party’s official name appears in the caption). VisionAid and Mount Vernon are back after the busy Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC,” for short) answered some state-law questions—arising from this litigation—that we had certified…
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