Grisham v. Commercial Union Insurance

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

On March 8, 1991, we filed our opinion affirming the summary judgments entered by the district court1 in favor of appellee insurers. 927 F.2d 1039. Appellants filed a petition for rehearing, with a suggestion for rehearing en banc, contending that the Supreme Court’s intervening decision in Salve Regina College v. Russell, — U.S. —, 111 S.Ct. 1217, 113 L.Ed.2d 190 (1991), which requires courts of appeals to review de novo district courts’ determinations of state law, compels a result different from that reached in our March 8 opinion. We granted rehearing by the panel…