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RIEFF v. EVANS

No. 02-0727.

672 N.W.2d 728 (2003)

Mary M. RIEFF, Appellee, v. John E. EVANS, Douglas L. Anderson, Harold S. Evans, Jamie H. Shaffer, James W. Callison, James M. Hoak, Jr., Mark W. Putney, William J. Hancock, James D. Kirkpatrick, Charles I. Colby, George E. Moore, Herschel G. Langdon, Charles F. Morgan, Hardy G. Kuykendall, Walter J. Fayle, Allied Group, Inc., and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants, and Allied Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. McClintock and David L. Brown of Hansen, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, and Michael R. Hassan and Bruce W. Foudree of Lord, Bissell & Brook, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for individual appellants.

J. William Koegel, Jr. and Elizabeth Johnson Dunaway of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, D.C., and Glenn L. Smith and Tamara K. Hackmann of Finley, Alt, Smith, Scharnberg, Craig, Hilmes & Gaffney, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant Allied Group, Inc.

Harold N. Schneebeck of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville & Schoenebaum, Des Moines, and Michael A. Reiter and Frederick R. Ball of Duane Morris, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

Brad J. Brady and Matthew L. Preston of Brady & O'Shea, P.C., Cedar Rapids, Thomas D. Waterman, Terry M. Giebelstein, and Nathan Clark of Lane & Waterman, Davenport, Daniel E. Bacine and Leslie Molder of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Jason B. Adkins and David L. Kelston of Adkins, Kelston & Zavec, P.C., Boston, Massachusetts, for appellee.

Ray Johnson of Johnson Law Firm, West Des Moines, and F. Paul Bland, Jr. and Victoria W. Ni, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Bruce R. Pfaff of Bruce R. Pfaff & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, Patrick C. Simek of Law Offices of Patrick C. Simek, Lubbock, Texas, and John M. Bickel of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, for amicus curiae American Board of Trial Advocates.

David L. Baker of Riccolo & Baker, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for amicus curiae Iowa Trial Lawyers Association.

LARSON, Justice.

The defendants appeal and the plaintiff cross-appeals from a district court ruling on the plaintiff's demand for a jury trial. The district court granted a jury trial as to one issue, but denied it as to another. The defendants were granted an interlocutory appeal, and the plaintiff cross-appealed. We affirm on the defendants' appeal, reverse on the plaintiff's cross-appeal, and remand for further proceedings.

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