Folksamerica Reinsurance Company, as Successor in Interest to Christiania General Insurance Company of New York v. Clean Water of New York, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an insurance contract providing coverage for losses sustained to vessels while undergoing repairs is a maritime contract
• holding that an insurance policy is a maritime contract even when it does not cover an identified vessel or shipment
• concluding that “the insurance contract at issue is primarily or principally concerned with maritime objectives, although there were incidental non-maritime elements”
• holding insurance policy with both marine and land components fell within the court’s admiralty jurisdiction
• noting that a CGL policy can void the watercraft exclusion with a “‘Watercraft Liability Coverage’ endorsement.”
• holding that “prior to inquiring into the subject matter of the contract, we first make a ‘threshold inquiry’ into the subject matter of the dispute” (citing Atl. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Balfour MacLaine Int’l (In re Balfour MacLaine Int’l), 85 F.3d 68, 74-75 (2d Cir. 1996))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).