Allstate Insurance v. Hechinger Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This seemingly , mundane subrogation case presents the important, but rarely litigated question whether an insurer can aggregate several claims to which it is subrogated in order to satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement of diversity jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). Also presented, assuming subject-matter jurisdiction, is the question whether abstention is appropriate given that a similar, but not identical, case is pending in state court.

For the reasons that follow, .the Court finds that subject-matter jurisdiction exists, and that…