Samples

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CORNHUSKER CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY,

Plaintiff-Appellee, v. No. 06-35106

CHRIS KACHMAN,

Defendant,  D.C. No.

CV-05-05026-RBL

and

OPINION

BROOKS SAMPLES, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Leanne Samples, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 19, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed January 30, 2008

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Lyle E. Strom,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, sitting by designation.

1505 1508 CORNHUSKER CASUALTY INS. v. SAMPLES

COUNSEL

Kevin Coluccio, Garth L. Jones, Paul L. Stritmatter, Stritmat- ter Kessler Whelan Withey Coluccio, Hoquiam, Washington, for defendant-appellant Brooks Samples.

Irene M. Hecht, Maureen M. Falecki, Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Seattle, Washington, for plaintiff-appellee Cornhusker Casu- alty Insurance…