Fidelity National Bank v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the court on a motion for summary judgment filed on behalf of third-party defendant, MGIC Indemnity Corporation (MGIC). The issues have been extensively briefed prior to and post oral argument.

This case is a fall out from the pervasive issuance and use of bank credit cards in recent years. A third-party demand pushes this federal court, exercising diversity jurisdiction, into the furthermost reaches of one of the unexplored thickets of Louisiana’s law of solidary obligations, which the Supreme Court of Louisiana is rapidly rewriting. 1 The…