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LESTER v. ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CAS. INS. CO.

No. 13-6070.

743 F.3d 469 (2014)

Amelia Davis LESTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 24, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: David H. Dunaway , David H. Dunaway & Associates, LaFollette, Tennessee, for Appellant. J. Chad Hogue , Baker, Kinsman, Hollis, Clelland & Hogue, P.C., Hixson, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Before: MERRITT, SUTTON and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

After a fire damaged her house in 2012, Amelia Lester filed a claim with Allstate, her insurance company. In investigating the fire, the company asked Lester and her husband to answer questions about the claim under oath. Lester responded that she and her husband would submit to examinations only if Allstate first showed them its investigative files. Allstate refused to turn over the files, explaining that doing so "could jeopardize...

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