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Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 17-2539 · judgment June 8, 2018


Certiorari denied · November 5, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for notification of fraudulent conduct as applying to pleading the actual monetary value of the resulting damages and can that pleading burden be reconciled with: (1) the conflicting ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Grubbs v. Kanneganti; and (2) the United States Supreme Court's decision in Story v Parchment keeping the burden of the uncertainty of damages on the Defendant. Whether a regulation focal to Plaintiffs case, plead factually in the complaint and fully briefed before both the District Court and Appellate Court, can be ignored on appeal because there was no citation to that regulation in the complaint, given the recent Supreme Court's pleading standards in Skinner v. Switzer, Whether the Court of Appeals improperly stated the law in denying the Plaintiff a private right of action, recognized by the highest courts in New Jersey, because the text of N.J.A.C. 11:1- 22.5(b)(2) only denies an insured the right to enforce those penalties "set forth in this subsection" Whether the monetary value attributed to damages for carrying risk, should be extended as a remedy to consumers in insurance contracts when

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Alfred DeGennaro

For respondent
Christian A. Cavallo
Goldberg Segalla, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 05 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 17 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/2/2018.
  3. Oct 09 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents American Bankers Ins., et al. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 21 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Government Employees Insurance Company to respond filed.
  5. Aug 28 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2018)