Last week the Eleventh Circuit held that the FAAAA preempted state law negligence claims against a transportation broker arising from a stolen shipment.
In Aspen American Insurance Company v. Landstar Ranger, Inc., a shipper hired a transportation broker to arrange for a motor carrier to transport a load of cargo. The broker turned the shipment over to a thief posing…
The December 2022 amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1 may make is easier to identify the citizenship of noncorporate entities like LLCs and, therefore, help litigators more quickly determine whether a case is removable.
Read more about it in the article I authored for the International Association of Defense Counsel’s Business Litigation Committee newsletter: https://www.iadclaw.org/assets/1/17/Business_Litigation_January_2023.pdf
