National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania v. Carib Aviation, Inc., and Gregg C. Fiddyment

How courts have described this case

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• finding insurance coverage for conversion applied where leased aircraft was “ditched” in the ocean with contraband; “In our view, Marchand’s unauthorized use of the aircraft, culminating in its destruction, constitutes conversion under Florida law.”
• where no requirement of lawful possession or entrustment is contained in exclusion, such requirement should not be read into policy
• court is not free to rewrite insurance policy or add meaning that is not there
• court is not free to rewrite insurance policy or add meaning that is not there
• “The essence of the tort is not the acquisition of the property; rather, it is the wrongful deprivation.”
• the essence of conversion is the wrongful deprivation, and not the acquisition of the property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).