Chubb Group of Insurance v. H.A. Transportation Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• collecting cases and clarifying “most 16 courts hold that brokers may be held liable under state tort or contract law in connection with 17 shipments”
• “However, the Carmack Amendment does not apply to brokers. Consequently, most courts hold that brokers may be held liable under state tort or contract law in connection with shipments.”’
• “[T]he Carmack Amendment 26 does not apply to brokers. … Consequently, most courts hold that brokers may be held 27 liable under state tort or contract law in connection with shipments.”
• “The Carmack Amendment applies to the inland leg of an overseas shipment regardless of whether the shipment is conducted under a single ‘through’ bill of lading or under separate bills of lading.”
• where party who acted as \broker\ in transaction in question was identified as \carrier\ in a bill of lading drafted by a third-party this did not create an issue of fact under Rule 56
• Carmack Amendment does not preempt state law tort actions brought against brokers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).