California Court of Appeal

A federal bankruptcy court has exclusive jurisdiction over a complaint against a debtor's insurer and attorneys seeking redress in a state court for an alleged bad faith filing of a voluntary bankruptcy petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2002
• Published 11/14/2002

Judges

• CROSKEY, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, Gwen Freeman and Mitchell B. Ludwig, Glendale, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Koletsky, Mancini, Feldman & Morrow, Roy A. Koletsky, Los Angeles, and Raymond C. Dion for Redland Insurance Company and Acceptance Insurance Company, Defendants and Respondents., Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Kenneth C. Feldman, Bartley L. Becker, Los Angeles, and Jeffry A. Miller, San Diego, for Zinder, Blackburn, Park, Clements & Keenan, Mercer & Zinder, Kevin H. Park, North Hollywood, and Zinder, Blackburn & Park, Defendants and Respondents.