QUALITY AUTO PAINTING CENTER OF ROSELLE INC v. STATE FARM INDEMNITY COMPANY (2018)

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

QUALITY AUTO PAINTING CENTER OF ROSELLE, INC., Traded as Prestige Auto Body, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE FARM INDEMNITY COMPANY, State Farm Guaranty Insurance Company, Progressive Freedom Insurance Company, Progressive Garden State Insurance Company, Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Hanover Insurance Company, 21st Century Centennial Insurance Company, 21st Century Assurance Company, 21st Century Pinnacle Insurance, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Ultimate Collision Repair, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Farm Indemnity Company, State Farm Guaranty Insurance Company, Progressive Freedom Insurance Company, Progressive Garden State Insurance Company, Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, 21st Century Centennial Insurance Company, 21st Century Assurance Company, 21st Century Pinnacle Insurance, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Campbell County Auto Body, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Safeco Insurance Company of America, Grange Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Grange Mutual Casualty Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Lee Pappas Body Shop, Inc., David C. Brosius, d.b.a. Martins Auto Body Works, Inc., Art Walker Auto Services, Inc., Whiteford Collision and Refinishing, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, United Services Automobile Association, USAA Casualty Insurance Company, USAA General Indemnity Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Concord Auto Body, Inc, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, Shelter Mutual Insurance Company, Farmers Insurance Company, Nationwide Affinity Insurance Company of America, Nationwide Insurance Company of America, Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Company, United Services Automobile Association, USAA Casualty Insurance Company, USAA General Indemnity Company, Progressive Advanced Insurance Company, Progressive Direct Insurance Company, Progressive Northwestern Insurance Company, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, Progressive Preferred Insurance Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

No. 15-14160, No. 15-14162, No. 15-14178, No. 15-14179, No. 15-14180

Decided: April 06, 2018

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, JORDAN, NEWSOM, and BRANCH, Circuit Judges.*

Allison P. Fry, Allison P. Fry, Attorney at Law, John Arthur Eaves, Jr., Eaves Law Office, Jackson, MS, Mark L. Shurtleff, Shurtleff Law Firm, Salt Lake City, UT, Joshua S. Bauchner, Ansell Grimm & Aaron, Clifton, NJ, Van Bunch, Eric David Zard, Tonna K. Farrar, Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint, PC, Phoenix, AZ, David A. Futscher, Parry Deering Futscher & Sparks, PSC, Covington, KY, Peter Andrew Miller, Miller Legal, LLC, Charlottesville, VA, for Plaintiffs–Appellants. Elizabeth Helmer, Michael P. Kenny, Tiffany Lynne Powers, Alston & Bird, LLP, Jeffrey S. Cashdan, Merritt Ellen McAlister, Claire Carothers Oates, Christine Alice Hopkinson, King & Spalding, LLP, Leah Ward Sears, Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, John P. Hutchins, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Atlanta, GA, Johanna W. Clark, Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, PA, Hal Kemp Litchford, Kyle Allen Diamantas, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Lori J. Caldwell, Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell, PA, Orlando, FL, Michael L. McCluggage, Eimer Stahl LLP, Richard L. Fenton, Mark L. Hanover, Dentons US, LLP, Timothy J. Rooney, Winston & Strawn, LLP, Chicago, IL, Kymberly Kochis, Michael R. Nelson, Francis X. Nolan, IV, Eversheds Sutherland (US)LLP, Eric Hochstadt, David L. Yohai, John P. Mastando, III, Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP, Michael B. de Leeuw, Cozen O'Connor, New York, NY, Michael J. Kurtis, Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst, Blue Bell, PA, Bonnie Lau, Dentons US LLP, San Francisco, CA, Michael Hiram Carpenter, Carpenter Lipps & Leland, LLP, Joseph Edward Ezzie, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Columbus, OH, Amelia W. Koch, Steven F. Griffith, Jr., Baker Donelson, PC, Seth A. Schmeeckle, Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, Marjorie Salazar, Lugenbuhl Wheaton Peck Rankin & Hubbard, Houston, TX, Dan W. Goldfine, Ian M. Fischer, Joshua Grabel, Jamie L. Halavais, Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, LLP, Paul Bruce Converse, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Phoenix, AZ, Michael Edward Mumford, Ernest Eugene Vargo, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Jeffery D. Ubersax, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, Thomas G. Rohback, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, Hartford, CT, David T. Klapheke, Boehl Stopher & Graves–Louisville KY, Robert L. Steinmetz, Gwin Steinmetz & Baird, PLLC, Louisville, KY, Michael Scott McIntyre, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Matthew C. Blickensderfer, Frost Brown & Todd, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, Lori M. McAllister, Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Lansing, MI, Robert Bradley Best, Jonathan Stuart Masters, Hal K. Best, Holcomb Dunbar Watts Best Masters & Golmon, PA, Oxford, MS, Robert Francis Reklaitis, LeClairRyan, Washington, DC, Edward Keenan Cottrell, Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Elizabeth S. Skilling, Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, Glen Allen, VA, Kenneth F. Hardt, Sinnott Nuckols & Logan, PC, Midlothian, VA, Thomas A. French, Barley Snyder LLP, Harrisburg, PA, Daniel Wilke, Wilke & Wilke, PC, Steven Howard Schwartz, Brown & James, PC, St. Louis, MO, Michael S. McCarthy, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Heather Carson Perkins, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Denver, CO, Ryan Hurley, Sarah Jenkins, Kathy L. Osborn, Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants–Appellees.