United States Eleventh Circuit
PRIME INS. SYNDICATE, INC. v. B.J. HANDLEY TRUCKING, INC., 03-12823
Defendants were properly denied attorneys' fees. District court did not err in applying lex loci contractus to determine that Alabama law governed this insurance contract; under Alabama law, an insured may not recover attorneys' fees incurred in a declaratory judgment action to determine coverage under a liability policy.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/24/2004
- Published 03/24/2004
Judges
- KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:, Before WILSON and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG , Judge.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Susan Scrivani Lerner, Miami, FL, Hugh Joseph Connolly, IV, Josephs, Jack & Gabe, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff.
- For Appellees:
- William Scott Patterson, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., Towson, MD, for Defendants.