GREAT AMERICAN INS. CO. v. M/V HANDY LAKER

Docket Nos. 03-7005, 03-7035.

348 F.3d 352 (2003)

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY and INSTCO Ltd., Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, v. M/V HANDY LAKER, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Cross-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, Pacific Basin Handy Bulk Carriers, (No. 26 CORP.) and Vanguard Enterprise Co., Ltd., Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Cross-Claimants-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, Aristrain Internationale Handelsgesellschart MBH and Aristrain Hispano Trade Handels GMBH, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellee, Western Bulk Carriers, K/S, Cross-Defendant-Third-Party-Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellee, Aristrain Hispano Trade Handels GMBH, successor in interest to Aristrain Internationale Handels GMBH, Cross-Claim-Defendant, Shinwa Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd., Cross-Defendant-Third-Party-Defendant-Cross-Claimant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven P. Calkins, Kingsley, Kingsley & Calkins, Hicksville, NY, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants Great American Insurance Company and INSTCO Ltd.

Manuel R. Llorca (Manuel A. Molina, of counsel), Skoufalos, Llorca & Ziccardi, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellee Aristrain Hispano Trade Handels GMBH.

A. Robert Degen, Fox Rothschild LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Cross-Claimant-Counter-Defendant-Appellee M/V Handy Laker and Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Cross-Claimants-Counter-Defendants-Appellees Pacific Basin Handy Bulk Carriers (No. 26 Corp.) and Vanguard Enterprise Co., Ltd.

Garth S. Wolfson (Edward A. Keane, on the brief), Mahoney & Keane, LLP, New York, NY, for Cross-Defendant-Third-Party-Defendant-Cross-Claimant Western Bulk Carriers, K/S, and Cross-Defendant-Third-Party-Defendant-Cross-Claimant Shinwa Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd.

Before: WINTER, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs appeal from a January 6, 2003 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Barbara S. Jones, Judge) declining to hold defendants liable to plaintiffs for damage to steel cargo aboard the M/V HANDY LAKER, and, accordingly, mooting indemnification cross-claims and third-party suits. On appeal, plaintiffs, INSTCO and its insurer Great American Insurance Co., challenge that portion of the District Court...

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