October 14, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal court erred in preliminarily halting a state court action challenging Erie Indemnity Co.'s collection of a management fee, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, rejecting Erie Indemnity's position that two similar, now-dismissed lawsuits precluded the state court action from proceeding.
February 26, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Third Circuit's refusal to transfer a case challenging Erie Indemnity Co. management fees from state court back to federal court, preserving the lower court's precedential ruling that the matter does not qualify as a class action under the Class Action Fairness Act.
October 30, 2023
Erie Indemnity Co. urged the Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit decision it said would let class action plaintiffs sidestep the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and litigate in state court, slamming the plaintiffs' "post-removal dismiss-and-refile gambit to destroy federal jurisdiction."