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
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Latest Conference: 2024-12-06
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

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Didthe June 6, 2024, decision of the Eleventh Circuit fail to comply with the rule that a federal court, ina 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? ti STATEMENT OF RELATED CASES « =Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Court of Cobb County, Georgia, No. 12-A-1738-2 (May 14, 2012) (Voluntarily Dismissed Feb. 10, 2021). « =Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, No. 1:21-CV-02376-ELR, 588 F. Supp. 3d 1320 (N.D. Ga. Jan. 5, 2022). « =Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 22-12833 (April 18, 2023) (unpublished). « =Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, No. 1-21-CV-02376-ELR (N.D. Ga. Dec. 1, 2023). « =Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-14201 (11th Cir. June 6, 2024) (unpublished).

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