Wound Management Specialists LLC v. Liberty Mutual Managed Care LLC ( 2024 )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI NORTHERN DIVISION WOUND MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS, LLC PLAINTIFF V. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:24-CV-727-DPJ-ASH LIBERTY MUTUAL MANAGED CARE DEFENDANTS LLC, ET AL ORDER On November 12, 2024, Defendants Liberty Mutual Managed Care, LLC, Liberty Mutual Group, Inc., and Helmsman Insurance Agency, LLC d/b/a/ Liberty Mutual Agency, removed this case from the Hinds County Circuit Court. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1 and Local Rule 7(c), a nongovernmental corporation is required to file with its initial pleading a Rule 7.1 disclosure statement. And effective December 1, 2022, every party or intervenor in a case in which jurisdiction is based on diversity must file a disclosure statement in accordance with Rule 7.1(a)(2). That disclosure statement must name—and identify the citizenship of—every individual or entity whose citizenship is attributed to that party or intervenor: (A) when the action is filed or removed to federal court, and (B) when any later event occurs that could affect the court’s jurisdiction under § 1332(a). Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1(a)(2); see MidCap Media Fin., L.L.C. v. Pathway Data, Inc., 929 F.3d 310, 314 (5th Cir. 2019) (“[A]llegations regarding the citizenship of a corporation must set out the principal place of business of the corporation as well as the state of its incorporation,’ . . . [and] a party ‘must specifically allege the citizenship of every member of every LLC.’” (first quoting Neeley v. Banker Tr. Co. of Tex., 757 F.2d 621, 634 n.18 (5th Cir. 1985), then quoting Settlement Funding, L.L.C. v. Rapid Settlements, Ltd., 851 F.3d 530, 536 (5th Cir. 2017))). Neither Plaintiff nor any Defendant has filed a Rule 7.1 disclosure statement. All parties are therefore directed to file complete Rule 7.1 disclosure statements within 14 days of this Order. SO ORDERED AND ADJUDGED this the 21st day of November, 2024. s/ Andrew S. Harris UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE