Virginia Woodfield, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., Plaintiff-Third Party v. Charlie Bowman, Planet Insurance Co., Defendant-Third Party

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• acknowledging that, “in some cases, merely pleading the name of the affirmative defense...may be sufficient.”
• stating that a defendant “must plead an affirmative defense with enough specificity or factual particularity to give the plaintiff ‘fair notice’ of the defense that is being advanced”
• noting that Rule 8 requires “all pleadings to be simple, concise and direct”
• finding such “boilerplate” defensive pleading insufficient under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(c) to apprize plaintiff of specific affirmative defense
• noting that (1) an affirmative defense requires the same pleading standard as the complaint; (2) fair notice requires enough specificity so as to not surprise the opposing party; and (3) boilerplate defense pleading is not sufficient under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (8
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that pleading “accord and satisfaction” 2 and “waiver and/or release” gave the plaintiff fair notice absent more “specificity or factual 3 particularity”

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