Smulley v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT DOROTHY A. SMULLEY, Plaintiff, v. No. 3:20-cv-01888 (JAM) SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS et al., Defendants. ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT FOR LACK OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION This case is about an old car worth less than $8,000. After the plaintiff crashed the car on an icy road, she wanted her insurance company to pay to repair it rather than to declare it “totaled” and pay the replacement value. But because the company did not agree with the plaintiff, she has filed this pro se federal lawsuit against the insurance company as well as…