United States Eleventh Circuit

In a case with multiple insurance company defendants, a service of suit clause in one of the insurance policies will prevent that insurer from consenting to removal of case to federal court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William C. Wood, Norman, Wood, Kendrick & Turner, W. Gregory Smith, Spain & Gillon, L.L.C., Emily Sides Bonds, Walston, Stabler, Wells, Anderson & Bains, Walter Jasper Price, III, Frank E. Lankford, Jr.,Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Lee H. Zell, Balch & Bingham, Thomas L. Selden, J. Bentley Owens, III, Starnes & Atchison, M. Alex Goldsmith, Birmingham, AL, Laura J. Coe, Brian S. Martin, Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, P.C., Houston, TX, Howard Close, Beaumont, TX, J. Mark Hart, Olscher & Hart, P.C., Laura Catherine Nettles, Lloyd, Schreiber & Gray, P.C., Robert E. Cooper, Rives & Peterson, William Anderson Mudd, McDaniel, Hall & Conerly, P.C., Vernon L. Wells, II, Watson, Wells, Anderson & Bains, C. William Gladden, Jr., James Stanley Witcher, III, Gladden & Sinor, P.C., Carol A. Smith, Brenen G. Ely, Smith & Ely, Joel Alan Williams, Sadler, Sullivan, Herring & Sharp, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Edward J. Grass, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, McLean, VA, D. Brent Baker, Frazer, Greene, Upchurch & Baker, Mobile, AL, Alan K. Goldstein, Douglas E. Gossow, Goldstein & Price, L.C., St. Louis, MO, Linda B. Foster, Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C., Atlanta, GA, James P. Ruggeri, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Timothy R. Dingilian, Washington, DC, William M. Cohn, Michael M. Murick, Brian C. Coffey, Chicago, IL, Greg C. Wilkins, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, LLP, Beaumont, TX, David M. Cassidy, James V. Aiosa, Gary D. Centola, Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, LLP, Uniondale, NY, John J. Dwyer, William Patrick Shelley, Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, Philip R. King, Meckler, Bulger & Tilson, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants., Matthew H. Lembke, Frederick Wendell Allen, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.