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KOLOSKY v. NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE CO., 395 Fed.Appx. 308 (8th Cir. 2010)

Joeffre KOLOSKY, Appellant, v. NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

No. 10-1909.United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.Submitted: September 22, 2010.
Filed: October 5, 2010.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This case is unpublished as indicated by the issuing court.]

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Joeffre Kolosky, Minneapolis, MN, pro se.

Jerry D. Van Cleave, Settano Van Cleave, Bloomington, MN, for Appellee.

Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

[UNPUBLISHED]
PER CURIAM.

Joeffre Kolosky appeals the district court’s[1] dismissal of his diversity action in which he alleged that Nationwide Life Insurance Company improperly denied coverage under an insurance contract. After careful de novo review, see Banks v. Int’l Union Elec, Elec, Technical, Salaried Mack Workers, 390 F.3d 1049, 1052 (8th Cir. 2004), we conclude that dismissal of the suit on Minnesota-law res judicata grounds was proper, see Brown-Wilbert, Inc. v. Copeland Buhl Co., 732 N.W.2d 209, 220 (Minn. 2007) (res judicata factors).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

[1] The Honorable Patrick J. Schiltz, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Arthur J. Boylan, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.

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