Insurer Is Real Party In Interest In Subrogation Suit Over Chimney Fire Damages

Mealey's (August 10, 2022, 1:42 PM EDT) -- CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge in New Hampshire on Aug. 9 ruled that he has diversity jurisdiction over an insurer’s subrogation lawsuit against contractors, in which the insurer seeks to hold a general contractor and two subcontractors liable for damages caused by a chimney fire based on the defendants’ faulty workmanship because the insurer is the only “real party in interest and complete diversity exists between” the insurer and the defendants....