United States First Circuit
Great Am. Ins. Co. v. Riso, Inc., 06-1857
In a suit over an insurer's duties to defend and indemnify a company during an antitrust lawsuit, summary judgment for insurer is affirmed where the terms of the policy covered torts, including product disparagement, but not an antitrust complaint brought by plaintiffs who had not suffered any reputational injury and whose allegations of disparagement instead concerned anticompetitive conduct directed against others not party to the suit.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/08/2007
- Published 03/08/2007
Judges
- BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, and SHADUR, Senior District Judge.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Martin C. Pentz with whom Jeremy A.M. Evans and Foley Hoag LLP, were on brief for appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Richard H. Nicolaides, Jr. with whom Mary F. Licari, Sarah E. Eversman, Bates & Carey LLP, A. Hugh Scott, Robert A. Kole and Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, were on brief for appellees.