Royal Insurance Company of America v. Pier 39 Limited Partnership, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• relying upon the fixed structure distinction to determine whether the floating breakwater and dock were themselves “marine objects”
• considering whether insurance on non-vessels was marine because they might nevertheless be “maritime objects”
• “To repeat an oft-cited example, a contract to build a ship is not within admiralty jurisdiction although a contract to repair a ship is.”
• “For an insurance policy to be within admiralty jurisdiction, the interests insured, and not simply the risks insured against, must be maritime.”
• “Wharfage contracts are maritime if wharfage is provided to a specific vessel.... If there is no connection to a specific vessel, however, contracts relating to wharves generally are not within admiralty jurisdiction.”
• “Wharfage contracts are maritime if wharfage is provided to a specific vessel. . . . If there is no connection to a specific vessel, however, contracts relating to wharves generally are not within admiralty jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).