Legal Opinion
John Wyeth & Brother Limited v. Cigna International Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 23, 1997No. 96-1653PublishedCited by 318 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALITO, Circuit Judge.
An English pharmaceutical company is fighting to keep its lawsuit located in the United States. Its American insurance company opponent counters that proper location for the lawsuit is England, not the United States. The English company, John Wyeth and Brother Limited (“Wyeth”), sued its American insurer, CIGNA International Corporation (“CIGNA”), in federal district court in Pennsylvania, seeking an adjudication of its rights under certain policies relating to product liability claims in the courts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.…
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