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101929P.pdf 11/03/2011 KAAPA Ethanol, LLC v. Affiliated FM Ins. Co.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-1929
and No: 10-2071
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - North Platte
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, Beam and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Insurance. By failing to object to a portion of the pertinent
instruction, Affiliated forfeited its argument on appeal that the policy in
question did not provide "collapse coverage;" district court did not err in
submitting to the jury the fact-intensive determination of the extent to
which collapse, rather than faulty workmanship, was the efficient
proximate cause of plaintiff's extensive losses; however, a new trial is
required as the district court erred in instructing the jury as to when a
collapse had occurred under Nebraska law.