Legal Opinion
Nationwide Insurance v. Zavalis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 14, 1995No. 94-1306PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Aleck Zavalis and two other students at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urba-na, set fire to the astroturf covering the University’s football field. Nationwide Insurance, which insured the Zavalis family, brought this diversity action seeking a declaratory judgment that it had no duty to defend or indemnify Zavalis in the state court suit filed against him by the University. The district court dismissed the declaratory suit, believing that it required resolution of a key factual question about the nature of Za-valis’ conduct that was also presented in…
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