( March 28, 2025, 1:15 PM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn.— A Connecticut appeals court affirmed a lower court’s grant of a marine cargo insurer’s motion for summary judgment in an insured’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit seeking coverage for the alleged theft and/or misappropriation of 25,250 metric tons of its alumina, finding that the lower court properly determined that the doctrine of collateral estoppel barred the insured from relitigating the issues as to whether the material was stolen and/or misappropriated and whether the material was seized by agents of the Chinese government....