Legal Opinion
Escambia Treating Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided November 5, 1976No. PCA 75-148PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
ARNOW, Chief Judge.
This case is brought under the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts, 28 U.S.C. § 1332, and presents an unresolved question of Florida law. Substantive state law, of course, controls.
Presented here is an issue pertaining to Florida law on which its courts have not ruled. Thus, this court must try to determine what the Florida courts would hold, were the issue before them.
If Florida had, as Alabama has, a provision permitting a federal district judge to certify such questions to its court, this question would be certified to it by this court.
As it…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Gruenberg v. Aetna InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1973
- Fletcher v. Western National Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1970
- Silberg v. California Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1974
- Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1975
- Campbell v. Government Employees Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1974
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Christian v. American Home Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1978
- Hoskins v. Aetna Life InsuranceOhio Supreme Court · 1983
- Gulf Atlantic Life Ins. Co. v. BarnesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- Ehrenhaft v. Malcolm Price, Inc.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
- D'AMBROSIO v. Pa. Nat. Mut. Cas. Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
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