Court Sua Sponte Orders Reinsurer to Submit Copies of Contracts to Prove Proper Forum
An Illinois federal court sua sponte ordered R&Q Reinsurance Co., the plaintiff in a newly filed case, to provide copies of the contracts at issue, based on the complaint reflected that neither party resided in Illinois for jurisdictional purposes, although the complaint alleged that the contracts were negotiated and would be administered in Illinois. The Court ordered production of the contracts under the suspicion that they contained forum selection or choice-of-law clauses. R&Q Reinsurance Co. v. Sentry Insurance, No. 12 C 9788 (USDC N.D. Ill. Dec. 12, 2012).
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