Legal Opinion
The Travelers Insurance Company v. Susan J. Carpenter
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 13, 2002No. Docket 01-9474PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Travelers Insurance Company (“Travelers”), a Connecticut corporation, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Murtha, C.J.) denying Travelers’ motion for summary judgment against defendant-appellee Susan J. Carpenter, a Vermont citizen, and dismissing without prejudice Travelers’ declaratory judgment complaint on abstention grounds in deference to parallel, pending state-court litigation.
Carpenter was in a car crash in February 1999 and suffered an injury for which she received workers’ compensation…
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