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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Jolivette Brown grants summary judgment to an insurance company and against the owner of an aircraft on his breach of contract claim, arising from hurricane damage to his plane which crashed three months later while en route to scheduled repairs from the storm, destroying the aircraft and killing the pilot. The insurer successfully argued it paid the plane’s owner the full policy amount of $65,000, the agreed value of the aircraft, following the crash. The owner does not dispute that additional payment for the hurricane’s damages to the aircraft would constitute impermissible double recovery. The ruling does not address the plane owner’s additional claims of negligence, bad faith or breached duties as the insurer’s request is limited only to further payment for property damage to the aircraft under its policy.