St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Board of Commissioners

PER CURIAM: *

This is a certified interlocutory appeal from the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment in favor of the appellee excess insurance companies, who issued a so-called bumbershoot policy to the appellant Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (“the Port”). The district court held that it had admiralty jurisdiction because the bumbershoot policy is a marine contract, and that a choice of law clause in the policy that designated New York law as controlling should be enforced. The district court held that under New York law the late notice of the claim provided a…