Bleecker v. Standard Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that plaintiff's state law tort claim arose from defendant's alleged failure to communicate and work with plaintiff
• finding that a party is not required to produce publicly available documents accessible to the other opposing party
• stating that “[stripping insurance claimants of protections offered by state law from the tortious conduct of insurers would leave a gapping hole in the flood insurance field which Congress did not intend”
• “Stripping insurance claimants of protections offered by state law from the tortious conduct of insurers would leave a gapping hole in the flood insurance field which Congress did not intend.”
• “[I]n order for the material to be discoverable, defendant must have some type of legal right to the material plaintiff seeks to discover.”
• “As insurance law is an area traditionally regulated by the states, the defendant bears the considerable burden of overcoming the starting presumption that Congress does not intend to supplant state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).