Emma Mercado v. Allstate Insurance Company

OPINION

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

Emma Mercado appeals the district court’s denial of her motion to remand this insurance bad faith action to state court and the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Allstate Insurance Company. Mercado argues the district court erred in concluding that (1) Silvia Luevano was a sham defendant included in the action to defeat federal jurisdiction; (2) Mercado’s bad faith claim against Allstate is foreclosed by Hamilton v. Maryland Cas. Co., 27 Cal.4th 718, 117 Cal.Rptr.2d 318, 41 P.3d 128 (2002); and (3) Allstate did not commit an unfair business…