United States Ninth Circuit

Under a crime and theft policy, an insured must report a potential loss to insurer when insured knows facts that would allow a prudent person to charge another with dishonesty, not merely facts to question one's honesty or knowledge of actual theft.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2001
• Decided 08/07/2001
• Published 08/07/2001

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PREGERSON, THOMAS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David R. Lombardi,Givens, Pursley & Huntley, Boise, Idaho, Laurence May, John H. Drucker, Jeffrey K. Cymbler, Angel & Frankel, P.C., New York, New York, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen R. Thomas, Moffatt Thomas Barrett Rock & Fields, Boise, Idaho, Frederick D. Baker and Joseph K. Powers, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York, New York, for the defendant-appellee.