AMERICAN EMPLOYERS INS. v. COACHMEN INDUS.

No. 20A03-0412-CV-567.

838 N.E.2d 1172 (2005)

AMERICAN EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Granite State Insurance Company, Pacific Employers Insurance Company, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, International Insurance Company, Transcontinental Insurance Company, and Continental Insurance Company, Appellants-Defendants, v. COACHMEN INDUSTRIES, INC., and Coachmen Industries of Texas, Inc., Appellees-Plaintiffs.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

December 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha S. Hollngsworth, Candace L. Sage, Bingham McHale LLP, Indianapolis, IN, Attorneys for Appellants Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Transcontinental Ins. Co. and Continental Ins. Co.

Robert T. Sanders, III, Sanders Pianowski, LLP, Elkhart, IN, Attorney for Appellants Pacific Employers Ins. Co. and International Ins. Co.

Don G. Blackmond, Doran Blackmond LLP, South Bend, IN, Attorney for Appellants National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA and Granite State Ins. Co.

William G. Stone, Stone & Moore, Chtd., Chicago, IL, Attorney for Appellant American Employers Ins. Co.

Thomas A. Barnard, Thomas F. O'Gara, Sommer Barnard Attorneys, PC, Indianapolis, IN, John D. Ulmer, Craig M. Buche, Yoder, Ainlay, Ulmer & Buckingham, LLP, Goshen, IN, Attorneys for Appellees.


OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge.

Case Summary

Defendants — numerous insurance companies — appeal the trial court's granting of Coachmen Industries, Inc. ("Coachmen") and Coachmen Industries of Texas, Inc.'s ("CIT") Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Choice of Law.1 The dispute at the center of this interlocutory appeal centers upon whether, as advocated by Coachmen, the substantive law of Indiana or whether...

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