Matter
COFRUITEL and LA CONCORDE Insurance Company v Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis
Cofruitel and La Concorde’s maritime arbitration over damage to a pineapple cargo, with French award-review proceedings concerning causation and shared fault.
Procedural record
- 29 March 1989France
29 March 1989France
Judgment of the French Court of Cassation, Second Civil Chamber, dated 29 March 1989
French Court of Cassation, Second Civil Chamber
- Citation
- French Court of Cassation, Second Civil Chamber, judgment of 29 March 1989
- Decision summary
- The Court of Cassation quashed and annulled in all respects the Paris Court of Appeal judgment of 19 November 1987 and remanded the case and the parties to the Court of Appeal of Orléans. The underlying dispute concerned the annulment of an arbitral award arising from damage to a cargo of fresh pineapples.
Participants
Cofruitel
- Representative
- SCP Jean et Didier Le Prado (For: Cofruitel · La Concorde)
La Concorde
- Representative
- SCP Jean et Didier Le Prado (For: Cofruitel · La Concorde)
Compagnie maritime des chargeurs réunis
- Representative
- Me Célice (For: Compagnie maritime des chargeurs réunis)
French Court of Cassation, Second Civil Chamber
- Judge
- M. Aubouin
- Judge
- M. Laroche de Roussane
- Judge
- M. Chabrand
- Judge
- M. Devouassoud
- Judge
- M. Dutheillet-Lamonthézie
- Judge
- M. Burgelin
- Judge
- Mme Z...
- Judge
- M. Delattre
- Judge
- M. Herbecq
- Judge
- M. Bonnet
- Advocate General
- M. Monnet
Other
- Institutional administrator
- Mme Lagardère
- Date not availableArbitration
Date not availableArbitration
Award of the Paris Maritime Arbitration Chamber
Paris Maritime Arbitration Chamber
- Decision summary
- The award dismissed Cofruitel and La Concorde's compensation claim against the Compagnie maritime des chargeurs réunis for damage to a cargo of fresh pineapples.
Participants
Cofruitel
La Concorde
Compagnie maritime des chargeurs réunis
Paris Maritime Arbitration Chamber