Lady v. Jefferson Pilot Life Insurance

ORDER DENYING REMAND

WINGATE, District Judge.

Before the court is the motion of the plaintiff to remand this case to the Circuit Court for the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi. The defendants removed this case to this federal court under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), 1 claiming that the defendant Billy Joe Ladd had been joined fraudulently as a party in this cause in order to defeat federal diversity jurisdiction pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1332. 2 The plaintiff is a citizen of Madison County, Mississippi, who claims that he purchased an insurance policy in 1986 through the…