Meridian Security Insurance Co. v. David L. Sadowski

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing several ways, including a plaintiff’s informal estimate or settlement demand, for a removing defendant to establish what the plaintiff stands to recover
• providing that the expense of providing a legal defense and potential outlay for indemnity count toward the amount in controversy
• stating that a claim is not ripe when the asserted injury is contingent on “future events”
• finding that the court must accept the plaintiff’s allegations on which jurisdiction is based at the pleading stage unless they are contested by the defendant
• noting that a removing defendant may establish the amount in controversy “by introducing evidence, in the form of affidavits from the defendant’s employees or experts, about how much it would cost to satisfy the plaintiff’s demands”
• noting that in equitable relief cases, the amount in controversy may be “what a judgment would be worth to the plaintiff, or what compliance with an injunction would cost the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).