· 5/19/1999
Peggy Greenberg and Pamela Rossmann, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated v. The Life Insurance Company of Virginia
Citations
- 177 F.3d 507
- 43 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 783
- 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 9496
- 1999 WL 312133
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- holding that district court may consider stock purchase agreement, offering memorandum, and warrant, on a motion to dismiss, even when these materials were not attached to complaint
- holding that consideration of insurance policies attached to defendant’s motion to dismiss “did not require conversion” of the motion “into a motion for summary judgment” because the policies were “referred to throughout the complaint”
- holding that an insurer’s attachment of life insurance policies to its 12(b)(6
- holding that “a document not formally incorporated by reference or attached to a complaint may still be considered part of the pleadings” if the document “is referred to in the complaint and is central to the plaintiff’s claim”
- holding that insurer's attachment of life-insurance policies to its 12(b)(6) motion did not require court to convert to a motion for summary judgment where policies were referred to throughout complaint and were central to insureds' fraud claim arising from purchase of policies
- finding that documents attached to a motion to dismiss that are referred to in the complaint and central to the claim are deemed to form a part of the pleadings
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Judges: Siler, Daughtrey, Gilman
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