Young, et al. v. Allstate Ins. Co., No. 13-1457 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs filed suit to recover losses sustained after a fire damaged their home. On appeal, plaintiffs challenged the district court's grant of summary judgment to Allstate. Plaintiffs claimed that the jury instructions misstated Missouri law and the elements of the claims and defenses. The court concluded that the jury instruction was not obviously erroneous and that any imprecision in this instruction was not the sort of egregious error that might warrant relief on plain error review in a civil case. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
Court Description: Civil case - Insurance. For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see Young v. Allstate Ins. Co., 685 F.3d 782 (8th Cir. 2012). Challenges to the jury instructions rejected, as the district court did not err in giving an instruction on defendant's affirmative defense of fraudulent misrepresentation.
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