Hughes v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Ins.

By Judge Marc Jacobson

In the instant action, Ann Hughes and Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company have stipulated that Plaintiff was traveling by airplane from the City of Norfolk to Palm Beach, Florida, on July 25, 1998. See Defendant’s Letter Dated February 22, 2001, (Defendant’s Letter), at 1. On that date, Plaintiff checked in at the Delta Airlines counter at the Norfolk Airport with her daughter, where both women checked one piece of luggage each and received sequentially numbered claim receipts for the bags. See id. When the women’s flight arrived in Florida, neither bag arrived with…