United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit brought by a subcontractor against an insurance broker under Nevada law asserting a tort claim for negligent failure to procure insurance, and two quasi-contractual claims for third-party beneficiary and promissory estoppel, a judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's negligence claim was not barred by Nevada's economic loss doctrine; and 2) there was a legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find that plaintiff proved the causation element of the negligence claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2008
• Published 03/10/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before WIENER, DeMOSS, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Francis Isadore Spagnoletti, Spagnoletti & Co., Kenneth G. Engerrand (argued), Brown Sims, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roger Dale Townsend (argued), Alexander, Dubose, Jones & Townsend, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.