American Motorists Insurance v. Trane Co.

Decided August 4, 1982. Barbara Brandriff Crabb wrote the opinion for the court.

544 F. Supp. 669 · Cited 65 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Grieb v. Citizens Casualty Co. · 33 Wis. 2d 552
• Sola Basic Industries, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 280 N.W.2d 211
• Ehlers v. Colonial Penn Insurance · 259 N.W.2d 718
• Patrick v. Head of the Lakes Cooperative Electric Ass'n · 295 N.W.2d 205
• Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · 50 Cal. 2d 654
• Bartholomew v. Insurance Co. of North America · 502 F. Supp. 246
• Meiser v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 8 Wis. 2d 233
• Iowa National Mutual Insurance v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 43 Wis. 2d 280
• Maryland Casualty Co. v. Peppers · 355 N.E.2d 24
• Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 34 N.Y.2d 356
• Kraemer Bros. v. United States Fire Insurance · 278 N.W.2d 857
• Stanhope v. Brown County · 280 N.W.2d 711
• Limpert v. Smith · 203 N.W.2d 29
• Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. Reynolds · 2 Wis. 2d 649
• Cargill, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 488 F. Supp. 49
• Tallmadge v. Skyline Construction, Inc. · 272 N.W.2d 404
• Wisconsin Transportation Co. v. Great Lakes Casualty Co. · 6 N.W.2d 708
• Capitol Indemnity Corp. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · 357 F. Supp. 399
• C. Raymond Davis & Sons, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 467 F. Supp. 17
• Arcos Corporation v. American Mutual Liability Ins. Co. · 350 F. Supp. 380
• Space Conditioning, Inc. v. Insurance Company of No. Amer. · 294 F. Supp. 1290
• Ness v. National Indemnity Company of Nebraska · 247 F. Supp. 944
• Lowenstein Dyes & Cosmetics, Inc. v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · 524 F. Supp. 574
• Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. v. American Motorist Insurance · 458 F. Supp. 792
• St. Francis Hospital v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board · 8 Wis. 2d 308

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• Hayden v. Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance · 141 Wash. 2d 55
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• Mowry v. Badger State Mutual Casualty Co. · 385 N.W.2d 171
• Independent Petrochemical Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 654 F. Supp. 1334
• W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh · 721 F. Supp. 984
• Harford County v. Harford Mutual Insurance · 610 A.2d 286
• Grossman v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. · 461 N.W.2d 489
• Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, LLC v. Nebraska Cultures of California, Inc. · 367 Wis. 2d 221
• Metlife Capital Corp. v. Westchester Fire Insurance · 224 F. Supp. 2d 374
• Laster v. American National Fire Insurance · 775 F. Supp. 985
• Barber v. Nylund · 461 N.W.2d 809
• Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District v. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. · 304 Wis. 2d 637
• Federal Insurance v. X-Rite, Inc. · 748 F. Supp. 1223
• Newhouse v. Citizens Security Mutual Insurance · 489 N.W.2d 639
• Pfeifer v. Sentry Insurance · 745 F. Supp. 1434
• Suffolk County Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n v. County of Suffolk · 595 F. Supp. 1471
• Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 676 F. Supp. 82
• Atmel Corp. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · 430 F. Supp. 2d 989
• Menasha Corp. v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · 361 F. Supp. 2d 887

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