Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Blackburn

How courts have described this case

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

• “Whether the insurer must foot the bill for defense and liability in the underlying suit is the essence of the coverage dispute, so of course [both defense and indemnity] count[].”
• “[w]hether the insurer must foot the bill for defense and liability in the underlying suit is the essence of the coverage dispute, so of course [both defense and indemnity] count”
• “[B]oth the cost of providing a defense and the potential cost of indemnifying [the insured] count toward the amount in controversy. This remains the case even where—as here—the underlying lawsuit remains pending.”
• amount in controversy satisfied where underlying negligence claims exposed plaintiff to significant damages
• notice of removal identified citizenship of nondiverse defendants that were allegedly fraudulently joined
• “The Seventh Circuit in no way suggested in Morris that the fraudulent joinder doctrine could not be used to oust a non-diverse defendant, just because that defendant happens to also be a resident of the state in which the suit was brought.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).