| Shipping Case From 1946 With
UN Footnote Heads To End Game With Excel
Spreadsheet
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 2 – On the question of
who was insuring a ship in the
1940s, Cosmopolitan Shipping
Co. in 2017 sued Continental
Insurance Company.
On August 25 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lorna G. Schofield held
an evidentiary hearing. Inner
City Press covered it - and
the September 2 oral argument
that followed.
On August
25 there was examination and
cross-examination, then
re-direct, of "insurance
archeologist" Alan Jervis,
about 1946 insurance involving
the "United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation
Administration... an
international relief agency,
largely dominated by the
United States but representing
44 nations. Founded in 1943,
it became part of the United
Nations in 1945, and it
largely shut down operations
in 1947."
Some of the
documents go back even
further. Archeology indeed.
On
September 2 it was argued that
the US had used UNRRA, much as
it has used the UN in this
millennium so far, to avoid
accusations of imperialism. At
the end Judge Schofield
ordered that the plaintiff
must file an Excel spreadsheet
comparing policy terms and
other items, the defense by
September 17.
The case is
Cosmopolitan Shipping Co.,
Inc. v. Continental Insurance
Company, 18-cv-3167
(Schofield)
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