Albany Insurance Company v. Anh Thi Kieu

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, “in the absence of a specific and controlling federal rule,” a marine insurance contract is “to be determined by reference to appropriate state law”
• discussing marine insurance cases in which courts refused to apply doctrine in its strictest form
• “We need not at this time explore all of the situations in which application of the uberrimae fidei doctrine might be proper.”
• “State law, therefore, governs the interpretation of marine insurance policies unless an available federal maritime rule controls the disputed issue.”
• “spotty application” of doctrine in recent years indicated that uberrimae fidei doctrine is not entrenched federal precedent permitting insurer to invalidate marine insurance policy
• “We need not at this time explore all of the situations in which application of the uberrimae fidei doctrine might be proper.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).