City of Vestavia Hills v. General Fidelity Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that direct actions involve claims that can be brought against insureds individually
• realigning a judgment debtor as a plaintiff in a judgment creditor’s suit to recover from the judgment debtor’s insurer
• \This Court concludes that the converse of this principle-that parties cannot avoid diversity by their designation of the parties-is also true.\
• “The removing party bears the burden of proof regarding the existence of federal subject matter jurisdiction.”
• “The removing party bears the burden of proof regarding the existence of federal subject matter jurisdiction.”
• “The removing party bears the burden of proof regarding the existence of federal subject matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).