Legal Opinion
Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Shivam Trading, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 2018No. 17-12672 Non-Argument CalendarPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
Employers Mutual Casualty Company (“EMC”) brought suit for a declaratory judgment against Shivam Trading, Inc. and Vicki Thrift freeing EMC from any obligation to defend Shivam in a suit brought by Thrift. The district court granted summary judgment to EMC. Thrift timely appealed to this Court. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
We assume that the parties are familiar with the facts underlying Thrift’s lawsuit against Shivam, so we will only briefly discuss the facts relevant to the case on appeal. Thrift has a pending suit in Georgia state court against…
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