Predicting that Pennsylvania courts may allow for negligence claims against individual insurance adjusters, a federal judge has found a couple did not fraudulently join adjusters as defendants in their bad-faith case to destroy federal diversity jurisdiction.

U.S. District Judge Thomas N. O’Neill Jr. of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted plaintiffs Rachel and Sean Kennedy’s motion to remand their negligence and unfair trade practices case back to the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.

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