Fay v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• deciding insurance coverage question on motion to dismiss
• affirming Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of complaint seeking insurance coverage because exclusion barred coverage
• construing under Mississippi law the same definition of “claim” in an insurance policy, and concluding that, insofar as the underlying complaint had a single “gravamen,” courts should not “uncouple allegations, read them in isolation, and disregard their context”
• \A federal court sitting in diversity must attempt to resolve issues in the same manner as would the highest court of the state that provides the applicable law.\

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