POPICH BROS. WATER TRANSPORT, INC. v. GULF COAST MARINE, INC.

No. 97-CA-0902.

705 So.2d 1267 (1998)

POPICH BROS. WATER TRANSPORT, INC. v. GULF COAST MARINE, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Sloss, James M. Jacobs, Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, New Orleans, for Plaintiff/Appellee Popich Bros. Water Transport, Inc.

Robert C. Clotworthy, David A. Abramson, Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., New Orleans, for Defendants/Appellants Gulf Coast Marine, Inc., Dieter M. Hugel and Alvin Pike.

Kevin L. Cole, John I. Goodwin, III, Chopin, Wagar, Cole, Richard, Reboul & Kutcher, LLP, New Orleans, for Amicus Curiae Louisiana Surplus Line Association.

Before BYRNES, ARMSTRONG and LANDRIEU, JJ.


ARMSTRONG, Judge.

This case is a suit against insurance brokers. The plaintiff is a crewboat company which obtained liability insurance through the defendant brokers. The defendant brokers obtained liability insurance coverage for the plaintiff from an English insurance company. After some months, the insurance company, because of financial distress, was placed into some sort of liquidation proceeding in England and stopped...

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