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ALLSTATE INS. CO. v. HECHINGER CO.

No. CIV. A. 97-1321-A.

982 F.Supp. 1169 (1997)

ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff, v. HECHINGER CO., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

November 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paulo E. Franco, Jr., Robins Kaplan Miller Ciresi, LLP, Washington, DC; David S. Evinger, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Mark S. Grotefeld, Provizer Phillips Grotefeld & Dennenberg, PC, Chicago, IL, of Counsel, for Plaintiff.

Helgi Walker, Christopher H. Buckley, Jr., Gibson Dunn & Cruthcher LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This seemingly mundane subrogation case presents the important, but rarely litigated question whether an insurer can aggregate several claims to which it is subrogated in order to satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement of diversity jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). Also presented, assuming subject-matter jurisdiction, is the question whether abstention is appropriate given that a similar,...

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