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Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 23-14201 · judgment June 6, 2024


Certiorari denied · December 9, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Did the June 6, 2024, decision of the Eleventh Circuit fail to comply with the rule that a federal court, in a case in which jurisdiction is founded upon diversity of citizenship, is required to apply the substantive law of the state in which the action arose?

  2. Does the decision of the Eleventh Circuit panel impermissibly allow State Farm to deny medical payments coverage, not only to Petitioner, but to perhaps thousands of other State Farm insureds who have incurred medical expenses in an auto accident?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James Lee Ford
James L. Ford, P.C.

For respondent
Daniel Francis Diffley
Alston & Bird, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 19 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
  3. Nov 18 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company to respond filed.
  4. Oct 23 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 29, 2024)