IN RE STATE AIRLINES, INC.

No. 88-5564.

873 F.2d 264 (1989)

In re STATE AIRLINES, INC., Debtor. BRITISH AVIATION INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., and Michael Valerie Spratt and Charles David Dalrymple Gilmore, as designated agents for and on behalf of Underwriters at Lloyds of London, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Susan MENUT, Paul G. Quinn, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

As Amended July 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon L. Wolfe, Cooper, Wolfe & Bolotin, P.A., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Diane H. Tutt, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thomas J. Whalen, Condon & Forsyth, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Circuit Judge.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we conclude that a conversion from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 does not reimpose the automatic stay of 11 U.S.C. § 362(a).

I.

Procedural Background

In October of 1982 appellants were injured in a plane crash. Although State Airlines did not own the aircraft involved in the crash, appellant Menut brought suit in Florida's Broward County Circuit Court against State Airlines one month after the accident...

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