Certain Underwriters v. Inlet Fisheries Inc.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYDS, 

LONDON,

Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INLET FISHERIES INCORPORATED; No. 06-35383

INLET FISH PRODUCERS

INCORPORATED,  D.C. No.

CV-04-00058-JWS

Defendants-Appellants,

OPINION

v.

TOTEM AGENCIES INCORPORATED;

AMERICAN E&S INSURANCE

BROKERS CALIFORNIA INCORPORATED,

Third-party-defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska John W. Sedwick, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 5, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed February 11, 2008

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges, and William W Schwarzer,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge McKeown

*The Honorable William W Schwarzer, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation.

1857 1860 CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS v. INLET FISHERIES

COUNSEL

John A. Treptow, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for the defendant-appellants.

Christopher W. Nicoll, Nicoll Black Misenti & Feig PLLC, Seattle, Washington, for the…