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 Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state law in a tort case involving insurance coverage raises a federal constitutional question warra…
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 the Fifth Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Accidental Death and Dismemberment Plan's provisions regarding coverage for an accidental…
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 Whether federal maritime law preempts state law claims related to insurance coverage for maritime environmental contamination
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Fa…
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 Whether a district court may award restitution in a health care embezzlement case where all of the alleged victims received the product they bargained…
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 Whether the FDIC's denial of FOIA coverage for theft, robbery or embezzlement of the Byline Bank violates the separation of powers doctrine
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), and principles of federalism in uniformly refusing to seek guidance …
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 Did the court of appeals' expansive reading of a boilerplate exclusion used nationwide by insurers in their commercial liability policies, a reading w…
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 Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute
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 Whether construction dust and debris damage to covered property constitutes 'direct physical loss' under an all-risk insurance policy
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 Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to certify…
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 Has the Third Circuit correctly applied the law as set forth in SL Industries, and should this Court now establish a uniform standard of coverage eval…
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 Whether financial liability should have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy after the Tortfeasor became uninsured d…
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 Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in imputing a crime to the defendant without any evidence or trial, in violation of due process
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 Whether QBE insurance improperly denied coverage for insured damages caused by criminal activity
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 Presumed Complete federal-preemption financial-responsibility insurance-coverage interstate-commerce motor-carrier tort-claims Whether federal regulations governing motor carrier financial responsibility limits preempt state law tort claims and determine the scope of insurance…