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LITTLEFIELD v. ACADIA INS. CO.

Nos. 04-1751, 04-1778.

392 F.3d 1 (2004)

Daniel LITTLEFIELD, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. ACADIA INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee, Karen K. Hartman, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 8, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon A. Rehnborg, Jr., with whom Mary Ann Dempsey and Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., were on brief, for Appellant Daniel Littlefield.

Leonard W. Langer, with whom Marshall J. Tinkle and Tompkins, Clough, Hirshon & Langer, P.A., were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to decide whether a provision of a yacht insurance policy excluding coverage for "any loss, damage or liability willfully, intentionally or criminally caused or incurred by an insured person" is ambiguous as applied to an insured who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after his involvement in a fatal boat collision, and, if not ambiguous, whether its enforcement would render coverage under the policy illusory...

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