Moyal
Moyal v. National General Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 ELAN MOYAL, Case No. 3:24-cv-02599-JD
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE REMAND
v.
NATIONAL GENERAL INSURANCE
COMPANY,
10 Defendant.
11 Defendant National General Insurance Company’s (NGIC) is alleged to have improperly 12 denied pro se plaintiff Elan Moyal’s claim for damage to his Mercedes Sprinter van. Dkt. No. 1. 13 Moyal originally filed the lawsuit in California state court. Id. NGIC removed the case to this 14 Court on traditional diversity jurisdiction grounds. Id. ¶ 4; 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b). Moyal asks to remand to state court on the ground that the removal notice was untimely. Dkt. No. 4. Moyal 16 does not otherwise dispute that the requirements of diversity jurisdiction are satisfied. The parties’ 17 familiarity with the record is assumed, and the case is remanded. 18 The rules governing the timing of the removal notice are straightforward. See Alcazar v. 19 Nissan N. Am., Inc., No. 23-CV-01951-JD, 2023 WL 4706167 (N.D. Cal. July 24, 2023). Sections 20 1446(b)(1) and (b)(3) of the removal statute require…