Allstate Insurance v. Occidental International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• suggesting that First Amendment retaliation claim would be stronger if the employee were fired “for reporting a crime of fraud”
• suggesting that First Amendment retaliation claim would be stronger if employee were fired “for expressing adherence to one church or another”
• discussing Erie’s mandate for federal courts sitting in diversity to look to the substantive law of the forum state
• following rule that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice of law rules of the forum state
• holding under Puerto Rican law that the insurer was prejudiced as a matter of law when it received notice after the judgment because the insurer was deprived of the ability to investigate, locate witnesses, appoint counsel, negotiate a settlement, and develop a trial strategy
• “[T]he district court should engage the defendant in an on-the-record 3 discussion to ensure that she fully understands the ramifications of her decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).