Judge Declines To Apply ‘Fraudulent Misjoinder’ Standard In Bad Faith Suit

(February 16, 2018, 2:15 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Remand of an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit to state court is necessary because the Ninth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals has yet to adopt the “fraudulent misjoinder” standard established by the 11th Circuit, which an insurer argues is the basis for the action’s removal to federal court in the first place, a federal judge in California ruled Feb. 13 in remanding the action to state court (Maria I. Delgado v. Primerica Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 17-3744, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23615)....