REMOVAL JURISDICTION

摘要

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled in Laizure v. CSAA Insurance Exchange, 2020 WL 6136234, Case No. 19-CV-388-JED-JFJ (N.D. Okla. Oct. 19, 2020) that the defendant Oklahoma auto club, which sold homeowners insurance of the co-defendant insurance exchange, successfully removed a state court action brought by a policyholder to the federal district court based on diversity jurisdiction, where the defendants submitted evidence that the auto club merged with a national alliance of auto clubs which was a citizen of Delaware, prior to the filing of the suit. Lacy Leigh Laizure, an Oklahoma citizen, filed this action in Oklahoma state court, alleging that a July 2018 a house she owned in Tulsa County suffered severe damage as a result of a water heater leak. She alleged she was covered by a homeowners policy issued by CSAA Fire & Casualty Insurance Company ("CSAA"), but that CSAA failed to cover the repairs. The suit against CSAA, CSAA Insurance Exchange ("Exchange"), and Automobile Club of Oklahoma ("Auto Club") was for breach of contract and bad faith.