Michael Downey v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under the Government Program, “although private insurers issue the policies, FEMA underwrites the risk. The insurance companies handle administrative business for FEMA by selling policies and processing claims but do little else”
• noting that “[a] reservation of rights is incompatible with waiver” and citing all circuits that have adopted the view that consent judgments are appealable on issues reserved for appeal and noting that the Fifth Circuit is the exception
• “Because we see no good reason to disregard not only the identity of the litigants but also the fact that § 4072 is limited to suits against the [Administrator], we decline to adopt Van Holt’s reasoning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).