No. 24-480

Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law
Latest Conference: 2024-12-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Did the June 6, 2024, decision of the Eleventh Circuit fail to comply with the rule that a federal court, in a case in which jurisdiction is founded upon diversity of citizenship, is required to apply the substantive law of the state in which the action arose?

2. Does the decision of the Eleventh Circuit panel impermissibly allow State Farm to deny medical payments coverage, not only to Petitioner, but to perhaps thousands of other State Farm insureds who have incurred medical expenses in an auto accident?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Farm

Docket Entries

2024-12-09
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
2024-11-18
Waiver of right of respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company to respond filed.
2024-10-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 29, 2024)

Attorneys

Kimberly K. Sisia
James Lee FordJames L. Ford, P.C., Petitioner
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Daniel Francis DiffleyAlston & Bird, LLP, Respondent