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CIGNA PROPERTY & CAS. INS. v. POLARIS PICTURES

Nos. 96-56252, 96-56789.

159 F.3d 412 (1998)

CIGNA PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY; Cigna Group of Companies; David F. Allen; Alliance Marine Risk Managers, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs-Counter- Defendants-Appellees, v. POLARIS PICTURES CORPORATION; U.S. Inbanco, Ltd., Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants. CIGNA PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY; Cigna Group of Companies; David F. Allen; Alliance Marine Risk Managers, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. POLARIS PICTURES CORPORATION; U.S. Inbanco, Ltd.; Rex K. De George, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot L. Bien, Bien & Summers, Novato, CA, for defendants-counter-claimants-appellants.

Ellis J. Horvitz, Patricia Lofton, Horvitz & Levy LLP, Encino, CA; Donald J. Sands, Neil S. Lerner, Sands, Norwitz, Forgie, Leonard & Leonard, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, THOMPSON and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:

Defendants/appellants Polaris Pictures Corp. (Polaris) and U.S. Inbanco Ltd. (Inbanco) appeal from the district court's judgment granting Cigna Property and Casualty Insurance Company (Cigna) rescission of a marine insurance contract on the ground of fraud.

The insurance contract was for insurance on a yacht. The district court found the insurance was obtained with the fraudulent intent to sink the yacht and collect the proceeds. We...

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