ANDERSON v. MINNESOTA INS. GUAR. ASS'N

No. C7-93-2490.

520 N.W.2d 155 (1994)

Kenneth M. ANDERSON, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Fred W. Hedberg; et al., Appellants, v. MINNESOTA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION, Respondent, Employers Insurance of Wausau, a Mutual Company, et al., Defendants, The Hartford Insurance Company, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, National Indemnity Co., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Granted September 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maclay R. Hyde, Nicholas N. Nierengarten, Rick E. Kubler, Jonathan M. Redgrave, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, Minneapolis, for appellants.

Richard J. Chadwick, Chadwick, Johnson & Condon, Minneapolis, for The Hartford Ins. Co.

Charles E. Spevacek, Stacy A. Broman, Meagher & Geer, Minneapolis, for St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Charles E. Lundberg, Bassford, Lockhart, Truesdell & Briggs, Minneapolis, and Laura A. Foggan, Daniel E. Troy, Bryan Earl, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC for amicus curiae Ins. Environmental Litigation Ass'n.

Bradley C. Clary, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, St. Paul, and Edward Zampino, Victor C. Harwood, III, Peter E. Mueller, Harwood Lloyd, Hackensack, NJ, for amicus curiae Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.

Karen A. Schaffer, Asst. Dakota County Atty., Chair, Civ. Committee, St. Paul, for amicus curiae Minnesota County Attys. Ass'n.

Considered and decided by PARKER, P.J., and SCHUMACHER and HOLTAN, JJ.


OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This court granted discretionary review of the district court's denial of appellants' motion to amend their complaint to add a claim for equitable estoppel. We reverse and remand.

FACTS

At the center of this dispute is a 92-acre parcel of land (the property) in Minnetonka owned by John Hedberg and the estate of Fred Hedberg. Between the late 1930s and 1954, two acres of the property were used as the Minnetonka Township...

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