Panel Affirms Dismissal Of Insurer’s Breach Of Warranty, Strict Liability Claims

Mealey's (April 4, 2019, 1:57 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 3 affirmed a lower federal court’s dismissal of an insurer’s breach of warranty and strict liability subrogation lawsuit against a raw chicken supplier, finding that the allegations fail to sufficiently assert that raw contaminated chicken that the supplier sold to the insured was “defective” under Maine law (Starr Surplus Lines Insurance Company v. Mountaire Farms Inc., No. 18-1818, 1st Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 9816)....