Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION H. RICHARD AUSTIN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. 4:24 CV 824 CDP ) HANOVER INSURANCE COMPANY, ) a/k/a Massachusetts Bay Insurance ) Company, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER More than thirty years ago, plaintiff H. Richard Austin filed a lawsuit alleging that Hanover Insurance Company and Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company, acting in bad faith, failed to pay on an insurance policy when fire destroyed his Vermont home in 1993. The defendants in that action claimed that Austin set fire to his own house. The case…