United States First Circuit

Enforcement of a provision in a yacht insurance policy, which excludes coverage for "any loss, damage, or liability willfully, intentionally or criminally cause or incurred by an insured person," against an insured convicted of criminally negligent homicide for his involvement in a fatal boat collision, does not render coverage illusory.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2004
• Published 12/08/2004

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon A. Rehnborg, Jr., with whom Mary Ann Dempsey and Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., were on brief, for Appellant Daniel Littlefield.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leonard W. Langer, with whom Marshall J. Tinkle and Tompkins, Clough, Hirshon & Langer, P.A., were on brief, for appellee.