Applying settled law in a diversity case in which a legal issue had not yet been decided by the State Supreme Court, “the Court of Appeals has held that an insurance adjuster owes no legal duty to the insured,” and there is no basis on which to hold that the Indiana Supreme Court would disagree, says a Seventh Circuit panel. The Federal Appellate panel therefore followed the holdings of the Indiana Court of Appeals. Lodholtz v. York Risk Serv’s Grp., Inc., ___ F.3d ___, 2015 WL 542815 *1 (7th Cir. February 11, 2015).
Thus, unless and until determined to the contrary by a court of competent jurisdiction, as a matter of law in Indiana as in many jurisdictions an insurance adjuster owes no legal duty to the insured.
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