AMERICAN CAS. CO. OF READING, PA. v. B. CIANCIOLO, INC.

No. 91-3821.

987 F.2d 1302 (1993)

AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. B. CIANCIOLO, INC., and the Cianciolo Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Fellows, Kenneth M. Kenney, Fellows, Piper & Schmidt, Milwaukee, WI, James T. Crotty, Zacarias R. Chacon (argued), Julie A. Hoffman, Crotty & Chacon, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Howard B. Mitz (argued), Mequon, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, EASTERBROOK, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

During the evening of December 4, 1980, a fire swept through the building housing a wholesale produce business in Wisconsin. The firms notified their insurer, American Casualty Company (which we call CNA, its trade name). Sandy Cianciolo, the general manager of the insured firms, agreed with CNA's inspector that the fire's multiple points of origin implied arson. CNA launched an investigation. Meanwhile Cianciolo (as we call the two corporations...

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