AMICA MUT. INS. CO. v. ESTATE OF PECCI

Docket: Cum-07-601.

953 A.2d 369 (2008)

2008 ME 93

AMICA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. ESTATE OF Esther PECCI et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Stolt, Esq., James A. Billings, Esq. (orally), Lipman, Katz & McKee, P.A., Augusta, ME, for Linda Mario.

Peter B. Bickerman, Esq. (orally), Verrill Dana, LLP, Augusta, ME, for Lawrence Pecci.

Martica S. Douglas, Esq. (orally), Douglas, Denham, Buccina & Ernst, Portland, ME, for Amica Mutual Insurance Company.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] Linda Mario, the personal representative of the Estate of Esther Pecci, and Lawrence Pecci appeal from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Cole, J.) in Amica Mutual Insurance Company's action seeking a declaratory judgment prohibiting the Estate from maintaining a wrongful death action against Lawrence. Mario and Lawrence contend that the Superior Court erred in finding that public policy bars an estate from...

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