John A. Ackerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1999-03-25

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POSNER, Chief Judge. Several hundred policyholders of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company brought this diversity suit against the company and several of its officers for common law fraud and related torts. The district judge dismissed the fraud claim for failure to comply with Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which requires that f…

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