Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Buffetta

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that payment of lower premium amounts every six months for three years before accident demonstrated knowledge and acquiescence in selection of lower coverage
• holding that decisions of the lower state courts can be given “due regard, but not conclusive effect[.]”
• explaining that absent a controlling decision from a state’s highest court, a federal court must predict how the state’s highest court would decide an issue
• explaining that if a state’s highest court has not decided an issue, a federal court must predict how the state court would decide
• holding plaintiff, who replaced former husband as the named insured post-divorce was bound by former husband’s uninsured/underinsured sign-down
• explaining that intermediate appellate court opinions are \not to be disregarded by a federal court unless it is convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).