Clarence Payne v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jurisdictional amount was controlled by limitation of liability in policy and not by the larger amount of damages
• holding that the jurisdictional amount was controlled by the limitation of liability set forth in the policy and not by the larger amount of damages where plaintiff’s claim exceeded policy limits
• holding that in an action for recovery under an insurance policy, the amount in controversy is determined by the lesser value of the claim or the value of the policy limit
• finding that the policy’s limit set the jurisdictional amount, despite claimant’s injury potentially “warrant[ing] 22 recovery from [insured] of damages greatly in excess of” § 1332’s amount-in-controversy threshold

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).