Peterson v. TIG Specialty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• the term “direct action” is one in which the injured party is entitled to bring suit against the tortfeasor’s liability insurer without joining the insured or first obtaining a judgment against him
• “[T]his direct action exception that destroys diversity exists only where a third-party tort victim forgoes suing the tortfeasor in favor of instead suing the tortfeasor’s liability insurer directly. This is the universal rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).