G & C CONST. v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INS. CO.

No. 83-1348.

731 F.2d 183 (1984)

G & C CONSTRUCTION CORP., Appellant, v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE CO., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Mardula, Vienna, Va. (Eric J. Rossum, Lewis, Mitchell & Moore, Vienna, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Thomas J. Cawley, Fairfax, Va. (Henry A. Schutz, III, McCandlish, Lillard, Rust & Church, Fairfax, Va., F. Joseph Nealon, Steptoe & Johnson, Chartered, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity breach of contract action by G & C Construction Co., a Virginia corporation (hereafter G & C) against St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., a Minnesota corporation (hereafter St. Paul), for punitive as well as actual damages. G & C claimed bad faith denial of its contractual rights as the basis for punitive damages. St. Paul refused recovery for losses suffered by G & C as a result of diversion...

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