General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Flamini

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an order allowing arbitration to proceed was a final judgment for purposes of res judicata because “Pennsylvania law takes a broad view of what constitutes a ‘final judgment’ for purposes of res judicata”
• denial by court in underlying action of requested injunctive relief and direction to arbitrate sufficiently conclusive to trigger res judicata despite failure to enter formal judgment
• where the court wrote that “the test for dismissal on the basis of prior pending action is different — and perhaps more narrow — than the test for dismissal on the basis of res judicata.” Id. at 317, 445 A.2d at 773.
• consolidation may be proper when dismissal is not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).