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No. 13-1036
WATSON
INSURANCE
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Spartanburg.
Henry M. Herlong, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (7:12-cv-00146-HMH)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
CRC Scrap Metal Recycling, LLC appeals from the district
courts
grant
of
summary
judgment
for
Hartford
Casualty
We affirm.
I.
CRC first appeals the district courts determination that
the Insurers did not have a duty to defend or indemnify CRC
against a suit brought by Action Concrete seeking payment for
property damage caused by CRCs receipt and sale of Actions
stolen aluminum forms.
commercial
general
liability
policy
because
negligent
Under
policy
South
language
Carolina
in
law,
accordance
[c]ourts
with
its
interpret
plain,
insurance
ordinary,
and
Ambiguities are
Id.
J.A. 822.
JA 839.
The
Actions
underlying
complaint
alleged
property
damage
to
Inc., 674 F.2d 401, 420 (5th Cir. 1982) (holding that handled
as used in the your product exclusion means to deal or trade
in.).
Action,
Thus,
the
constitute
aluminum
CRCs
forms,
product
although
for
the
still
owned
purposes
of
by
the
II.
CRC also challenges the district courts determination that
it failed to offer evidence supporting its claims of negligence
and negligent misrepresentation by the Insurers.
CRC asserts
that
it
summary
evidence
judgment
that
it
was
inappropriate
relied,
to
its
because
detriment,
offered
on
the
and
accordingly
purchased
insurance
that
did
that
CRC
relied
on
Watsons
employee,
the
not
Even
district
to
Id.
determine
what
coverage
the
insured
should
negligent
CRC
offered
misrepresentation
no
evidence
that
claim
the
similarly
Insurers
or
fails
their
An insurers vague
Cf.
Miller v. Premier Corp., 608 F.2d 973, 981 (4th Cir. 1979).
III.
We accordingly affirm the district courts grant of summary
judgment
for
the
Insurers.
We
dispense
with
oral
argument