A federal judge has ordered an insurance company to pay attorney fees and costs for an “objectively unreasonable” attempt to remove to federal court a lawsuit over a motor vehicle insurance settlement.
In a May 3 memorandum opinion in Mikiewicz v. Hamorski, U.S. District Judge Robert D. Mariani of the Middle District of Pennsylvania found that a claim seeking to enforce a settlement agreement for allegedly violating state law was insufficient to allow removal, despite the suit’s involvement of a federal statute.
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