insurance-coverage

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-884 Lexington Insurance Company, et al. v. Suquamish Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (1) covid-19-claims insurance-coverage jurisdictional-limits nonmember-conduct sovereign-interests tribal-jurisdiction Whether a tribal court can exercise jurisdiction over nonmembers of the tribe based on off-reservation conduct.
24A734 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation insurance-coverage state-supreme-court tort-law Question not identified.
24-666 Fonda Wicks v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response Waived accidental-injury anoxic-brain-injury contra-proferentum death-benefits insurance-coverage medical-treatment-exception Whether considering the Accidental Death and Dismemberment Plan, and the facts, Petitioner Wicks is entitled to benefits? Whether the Fifth Court of …
24A528 Lexington Insurance Company, et al. v. Suquamish Tribe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete environmental-contamination federal-jurisdiction insurance-coverage maritime-law policy-interpretation preemption Question not identified.
24-480 Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law 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 founde…
23-6235 John S. Romero, aka John Silva Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bargained-for-product district-court embezzlement federal-question health-care health-care-embezzlement insurance-coverage restitution victim-compensation victims Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the important federal question of whether a district court may award restitutio…
23-273 Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie…
22-6689 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers Are the separation of powers violated by the sweeping construction of FDIC insurance as a substantive jurisdictional element in eight federal courts o…
22-424 The Cordish Companies, Inc. v. Affiliated FM Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived certified-question civil-procedure conflict-of-laws erie-doctrine federalism insurance insurance-coverage judicial-procedure maryland state-law-interpretation west-virginia Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the constitutional principles set forth in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), which protect each s…
21-1358 Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma, Inc., dba Goodwill Career Pathways Institute v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure covid-19 covid-related-claims direct-physical-loss erie-doctrine federalism insurance insurance-coverage state-law state-law-interpretation Whether federal courts are violating Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), as well as principles of federalism, in uniformly refusing to seek a…
21-919 Rodenburg LLP, dba Rodenburg Law Firm v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived boilerplate-exclusion commercial-liability commercial-liability-policies illusory-coverage insurance-coverage jurisdictional-split north-dakota-law policy-interpretation property-rights split-of-authority substantive-law 1. Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a readin…
21-652 Lynette Duncan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Duncan, Deceased v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-conflict injury-in-fact insurance-coverage medical-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer-act private-cause-of-action Does a person suffer Article III injury-in-fact when an insurer breaches its contractual obligation to pay for the person's medical care?
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction (1) Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance disp…
20-998 Mama Jo’s, Inc., dba Berries v. Sparta Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) all-risk-insurance all-risk-policy causation-expert construction-damage daubert-standard direct-physical-loss expert-testimony insurance-coverage The central question in this matter is what constitutes physical damage to property for the purposes of triggering coverage under an all-risk insuranc…
19-689 Mark Chapman, et al. v. ACE American Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied certification civil-procedure duty-to-defend insurance-coverage statutory-interpretation statutory-rights substance-abuse summary-judgment 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to cert…
19-558 Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit Although the law of the State of New Jersey, which applies to this diversity action, removed from State Court on that basis, imposes a broad duty on a…
19-5816 Gabriel A. Maalouf v. Praetorian Insurance Company Nevada 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-impact contract contract-breach insurance-coverage insurance-guarantee-association negligence negligence-claim uninsured-motorist 1. Should financial liability have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy Praetorian Insurance Company, after the Tort…
18-845 Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts Jane Doe, at 18 and recently her high school's valedictorian, was raped in a lonely motel room after she passed out from drinking alcohol at Pastzaios…
18-7241 Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations Can this court determine it is "extremely unusual and extraordinary circumstances" for QBE insurance and their adjusters to deny coverage by attributi…
18-24 Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco…
24A441 Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC Georgia Denied federal-preemption financial-responsibility insurance-coverage interstate-commerce motor-carrier tort-claims 1. Whether $147,000 final offer to settle violates the Federal Minimum Levels of Financial Responsibility for Motor Carriers Scheduling Limit in contr…