ESTATE OF TORRES EX REL. TORRES v. MORALES

No. 2007AP1519.

756 N.W.2d 662 (2008)

2008 WI App 113

ESTATE OF Richard G. TORRES by its Administrator, Lina S. TORRES, and Christian M. Torres, a minor, by her parent and guardian, Gina C. Dissinger, and by her Guardian Ad Litem, Jay A. Urban, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Rene G. MORALES, Allstate County Mutual Insurance Company and Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company, Defendants, Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Company and Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, Inc., Defendants-Respondents, Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, Subrogated Defendant-Appellant, v. Craig A. Weber and Progressive Halcyon Insurance Company, Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

June 18, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of G. Kevin Buchanan and Melissa J. Bellan of Buchanan & Burke, LLP of Dallas, TX; Jay A. Urban and Jennifer M. Wilson of Urban & Taylor S.C., Milwaukee; James G. Curtis of Hale, Skemp, Hanson, Skemp & Sleik, La Crosse.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Stacy K. Luell, and Jeffrey T. Nichols, of Crivello Carlson, S.C., Milwaukee.

Before BROWN, C.J., ANDERSON, P.J., and SNYDER, J.


¶ 1 BROWN, C.J.

This case arises from an automobile accident in Oconomowoc in which Richard Torres was killed. Torres lived and worked in Texas and had traveled to Wisconsin, along with a coworker, for a seminar related to his job. At the time of the accident, the coworker was driving the car and Torres was the passenger. Torres' estate, his minor daughter, and his mother sued the coworker and his insurers for negligence, but the trial court dismissed the claims...

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