Legal Opinion

Allstate Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation v. The Employers Liability Assurance Corp., Ltd., and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided August 25, 1971No. 31068_1PublishedCited by 96 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

In one of those ordinary extraordinary bits of diversity mysticism, we must perform the occult multiple feats of divining whether the district court correctly predicted what a Florida court would determine an Illinois court would decide on a question which the courts of Illinois have not yet squarely faced. Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate) brought this declaratory judgment action seeking a legal interpretation of the frequently conflicting, often abstruse, but standard and widely used in insurance policy words “other collectible insurance” in hired automobile…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. United Public Workers of America v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  3. Golden v. ZwicklerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. American Fidelity & Casualty Company, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
  5. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Certain UnderwritersIllinois Supreme Court · 1966

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