Truck Insurance Exchange v. Magnetek, Inc.

TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

On November 9, 1998, a fire destroyed Sammy’s Restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado. In this subrogation case, plaintiff Truck Insurance Exchange claims that a fluorescent light ballast manufactured by defendant MagneTek, Incorporated, caused the fire, and seeks to recover over $1.5 million paid out to Sammy’s. The district court’s jurisdiction was based on diversity between Truck, a California corporation, and MagneTek, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Tennessee. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332, 1446. We have jurisdiction on appeal pursuant to 28…