United States Fourth Circuit

Plaintiff's failure to file a proof of loss for damage to its leasehold improvements is not an absolute bar to recovery under the Standard Flood Insurance Policy; remanded to determine whether defendant repudiated the policy by refusing to provide building coverage.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2004
• Published 05/21/2004

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and William D. QUARLES, Jr., United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:John Albert Michaels, Michaels & Michaels, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Gerald Joseph Nielsen, Metairie, Louisiana, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Walter E. Brock, Jr., Young, Moore & Henderson, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.