MILWAUKEE COUNTY v. JUNEAU COUNTY

No. 02-2880.

269 Wis.2d 730 (2004)

2004 WI App 23

676 N.W.2d 513

MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Plaintiff-Cross-Respondent, v. JUNEAU COUNTY, Defendant, SAUK COUNTY, Defendant-Cross-Respondent, WISCONSIN COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CORPORATION, Third-Party Plaintiff, JUNEAU COUNTY, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SENTRY INSURANCE COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant-Cross-Respondent, SAFETY NATIONAL CASUALTY CORPORATION, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent-Cross-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided January 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the third-party plaintiff-appellant Juneau County, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Mark B. Hazelbaker, Madison.

On behalf of the third-party defendant-respondent-cross-appellant Safety National Casualty Corporation, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Virginia L. Newcomb and Patryk Silver of Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., Madison.

On behalf of the defendant-cross-respondent Sauk County and the third-party defendant-cross-respondent Sentry Insurance Company, the cause was submitted on the brief of Robert Horowitz of Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, and Bradway A. Liddle, Jr. and Sarah A. Zylstra of Boardman Law Firm LLP, Madison. The brief was joined in by plaintiff-cross-respondent Milwaukee County.

Before Dykman, Anderson and Lundsten, JJ.


¶ 1. LUNDSTEN, J.

This is a worker's compensation claim case arising out of a fatal helicopter crash in Dodge County that took the lives of two Milwaukee County police officers. Juneau County appeals that part of a summary judgment order which dismissed Juneau County's claim against its worker's compensation insurance carrier, Safety National Casualty Corporation. Safety National cross-appeals a subsequent summary judgment order that dismissed all claims against...

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