ALTERNATIVE ENERGY v. ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE

No. 01-1133.

267 F.3d 30 (2001)

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, INC., Beaver-Cadillac, G.P., Inc., Beaver Plant Operations, Inc., Christopher Hutchins, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Bennett, with whom The Bennett Law Firm, P.A., Daniel G. Lilley and Daniel G. Lilley Law Offices, P.A., were on brief, for appellants.

Richard A. Simpson, with whom Lynda Guild Simpson, Jeffrey J. Ward, Ross, Dixon & Bell, L.L.P., Karen Frink Wolf and Friedman Babcock & Gaythwaite, were on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Appellants filed professional malpractice suits in Maine state court against attorneys John Lightbody, Peter Murray, and their law firm Murray, Plumb & Murray ("MPM Law Firm"), which was insured by appellee St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company ("St.Paul"). St. Paul settled at least some of these claims in a 1998 settlement agreement. Appellants then filed a second claim against St. Paul, arising out of alleged malpractice by attorney...

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