Legal Opinion
John A. Ackerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 1999No. 98-3361PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Several hundred policyholders of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company brought this diversity suit against the company and several of its officers for common law fraud and related torts. The district judge dismissed the fraud claim for failure to comply with Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which requires that fraud claims be pleaded with particularity, and having done so he dismissed the entire suit with prejudice. The plaintiffs appeal from the dismissal of the suit, from an order entered at the same time refusing to allow them to file an…
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