U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
William Powell Company v. Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Whitney Downs Hermandorfer
- Filed
- Feb. 27, 2026
- Case
- William Powell Company v. Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 26a0099n.06 Case No. 25-3322 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED ) Feb 27, 2026 WILLIAM POWELL COMPANY, KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ) ON APPEAL FROM THE v. ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT ) COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY ) DISTRICT OF OHIO LIMITED, et al., ) Defendants-Appellees, ) OPINION ) GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY ) OF NEW YORK; GREAT AMERICAN E & S ) INSURANCE COMPANY; HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY; ) UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE ) COMPANY, ) Defendants/Cross-Claimants-Appellants, ) ) AVIVA INSURANCE LIMITED, ) ) Defendant/Cross-Defendant-Appellee. ) Before: NALBANDIAN, DAVIS, and HERMANDORFER, Circuit Judges. HERMANDORFER, Circuit Judge. This dispute arises from longstanding insurance policies managed by a series of related and successor entities both here and abroad. Several decades ago, starting in the 1950s, the Ohio-based William Powell Company purchased numerous general-liability insurance policies from a Scottish entity called General Accident Fire and Life No. 25-3322, Wm. Powell Co. v. Ocean Marine Ins. Co., et al. Assurance Corporation, Ltd. Now, Gene…
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