Markel American Insurance v. Dolan

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM J. HIBBLER, District Judge.

Plaintiff Markel American Insurance Company moves to stay or dismiss Defendants’ counterclaims. Before the Court addresses those motions, it first must resolve a jurisdictional question that has arisen. Shortly after the parties briefed the motions to stay and dismiss, Defendant Ryan Dolan moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. Markel had in voked this court’s admiralty jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1333, asserting that the dispute concerned a policy of maritime insurance. Dolan based his motion on the distinction between a vessel…