TRIDENT CENTER v. CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INS.

Nos. 87-6085, 87-6267.

847 F.2d 564 (1988)

TRIDENT CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1988.

As Amended July 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley S. Phillips, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert W. Fischer, Jr., Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before HUG, ALARCON and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

The parties to this transaction are, by any standard, highly sophisticated business people: Plaintiff is a partnership consisting of an insurance company and two of Los Angeles' largest and most prestigious law firms; defendant is another insurance company. Dealing at arm's length and from positions of roughly equal bargaining strength, they negotiated a commercial loan amounting to more than $56 million. The contract documents are lengthy...

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