QBE SEGUROS v. MORALES-VÁZQUEZ

No. 19-1503.

986 F.3d 1 (2021)

QBE SEGUROS, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Carlos A. MORALES-VÁZQUEZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alberto J. Castañer , San Juan, PR, with whom Castañer & Cía P.S.C., Juan Rafael González-Muñoz , and González Muñoz Law Offices, PSC were on brief, for appellant.

Manuel Sosa-Báez , with whom Ian P. Carvajal , San Juan, PR, and Saldaña, Carvajal & Vélez-Rivé, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellee.

Before Barron and Selya, Circuit Judges, and Katzmann, Judge.


This appeal involves a dispute between a boat owner (who purchased a policy of marine insurance without disclosing, among other things, a prior grounding) and his insurance company. Resolving the appeal requires us to revisit the doctrine of uberrimae fidei — an entrenched principle of maritime law that imposes a duty...

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