Bar Seeks 8th Circuit Reversal In Fire Damage Coverage Row, Cites Scope Of Actions

( October 10, 2024, 8:10 AM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A corporation operating a bar and the former spouse of the bar’s prior owner, who pleaded guilty to arson for the fire that destroyed the bar, filed a reply brief in the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals urging the court to reverse a district court’s grant of summary judgment to the bar’s insurer upon finding that the arsonist’s false statements to defraud the insurer were imputed to the bar....