FEMA: No Waiver Of Sovereign Immunity In Superstorm Sandy Claims Review Process

Mealey's (May 7, 2019, 11:41 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Federal Emergency Management Agency argues to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a May 3 brief that a lower court properly applied basic contract law and sovereign immunity principles in concluding that an insured did not have a “breach of contract” claim against it, asking the appeals court to affirm a take-nothing judgment in the insured’s lawsuit alleging that he was wrongfully denied $141,274.50 in insurance proceeds for Superstorm Sandy damage to his Long Beach, N.Y. home (David Clutter v. William B. Long, et al., No. 18-3520, 2nd Cir.)....