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PECKHAM v. CONTINENTAL CAS. INS. CO.

Nos. 89-1556, 89-1557.

895 F.2d 830 (1990)

Scott PECKHAM, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY INSURANCE CO., Defendant, Appellee. Scott PECKHAM, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY INSURANCE CO., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip N. Beauregard, New Bedford, Mass., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Thomas D. Burns, with whom Michael J. Grace, Ann M. Donovan, and Burns & Levinson, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

These appeals stem from a tragic highway accident in which plaintiff Scott Peckham was rendered a quadriplegic. Andrew Tripp was driving the vehicle in which Peckham was a passenger. The facts of the accident are relatively unimportant. It suffices to say that Tripp's liability was clear and his coverage, underwritten by defendant Continental Casualty Co. (CNA), was meagre.

Peckham and his wife...

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