Hanover Insurance Co v. Hayward

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Plaintiff, The Hanover Insurance Company, appeals from a judgment entered after a jury-waived trial in Superior Court (Washington County) denying it punitive damages in its action to recover the insurance it had paid its insured, the Defendant Clinton R. Hayward, Jr. The Defendant cross-appeals, challenging the Superior Court’s ruling that for purposes of this subsequent civil action his prior criminal conviction for arson was conclusive proof of all facts necessarily adjudicated in the earlier criminal conviction. We deny both the appeal and the cross-appeal.

After the…