Legal Opinion

Monica Stoner v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided January 6, 1986No. 85-5054PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Monica Stoner appeals from the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment to the defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company [State Farm] in this diversity action. Stoner brought this action seeking the underin-sured motorist benefits under two policies issued by State Farm to her father, and alleging bad faith on State Farm’s part in refusing to pay the underinsured motorist benefits under her own policy. On July 1, 1983 the district court granted State Farm’s motion for summary judgment on Stoner’s claim for punitive damages in…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Foman v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Novak v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1980
  3. Thu v. American Family Insurance Co.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1980
  4. Lawrence County in Re FormanSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1945
  5. Spurlin v. SiebrasseSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1951

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Charles E. Steele, Individually and as Guardian of the Estate of Charles E. Steele, Jr. v. The Hartford Fire Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
  2. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. RuizWashington Supreme Court · 1998
  3. Moller v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceNebraska Supreme Court · 1997
  4. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. RuizWashington Supreme Court · 1998
  5. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Anne Marie Budd-BaldwinCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1991

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