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MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN v. GREAT AMERICAN INS. CO.

No. 85-1145.

813 F.2d 520 (1987)

MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN, Third Party Plaintiff, Appellant, v. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, Third Party Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence E. Duffy, San Juan, P.R., was on brief, for third party plaintiff, appellant.

Iván M. Fernández with whom Falcón & Fernández, Hato Rey, P.R., was on brief, for third party defendant, appellee.

Before BOWNES, TORRUELLA and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the duty of an insurer to defend an insured. Because the resolution of the controversy depended upon unsettled questions of Puerto Rico law, we certified these questions to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.1 Having received that court's certification opinion, which we include as an appendix to this opinion, we now issue our decision reversing the district court.

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