Bath Iron Works Corp. v. Certain Member Companies of the Institute of London Underwriters

How courts have described this case

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• finding Lloyd’s analysis inapplicable where plaintiff sued “both the agents and principals by suing all ‘underwriters,’” and no “choice between agent and undisclosed principal [was] made”
• “courts look to the ‘real parties in interest’ to determine whose citizenship will be considered for the purposes of diversity”
• “Contrary to Lloyd’s assertions, ‘control’ is not a dispositive issue in determining who, among parties, is the real party-in interest”
• “The Names were appropriately named as defendants here since they are potentially liable; accordingly, the citizenship of each defendant (i.e., each Name) should be considered for diversity purposes”
• “[I]t would be absurd to conclude that the Names are merely nominal or formal parties in this litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).