PORN v. NATIONAL GRANGE MUT. INS. CO.

No. 95-2197.

93 F.3d 31 (1996)

Daryl E. PORN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. NATIONAL GRANGE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine R. Connors, Portland, ME, with whom Scott T. Maker and Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, were on brief for appellant.

Constance L. Epstein, Hartford, CT, with whom John R. Fitzgerald, Matthew D. Gilmond, Howard, Kohn, Sprague & Fitzgerald, Hartford, CT, Harold J. Friedman, Elizabeth A. Germani, Jonathan M. Dunitz, and Friedman & Babcock, Portland, ME, were on brief for appellee.

Before SELYA, STAHL, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.


STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Having successfully sued his insurer, National Grange Mutual Insurance Company ("National Grange"), six months earlier for breach of contract in refusing to pay his claim for underinsured motorist benefits incurred during a July 1990 car accident, plaintiff-appellant Daryl E. Porn brought this diversity action in Maine's federal district court against National Grange seeking additional damages for its alleged mishandling of his underinsured motorist...

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