NAUTILUS INS. CO. v. REUTER

Nos. 06-4019, 07-1400.

537 F.3d 733 (2008)

NAUTILUS INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David REUTER, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Shirley Reuter, and Justin L. Chretien, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 8, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Harney, Jr., Hume Smith Geddes Green & Simmons, Indianapolis, IN, John C. Tollefson (argued), Tollefson Bradley Ball & Mitchell, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael W. Rathsack (argued), Chicago, IL, Timothy F. Kelly, Kelly Law Offices, Crown Point, IN, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

After numerous small corporations submitted claims to Nautilus Insurance Company ("Nautilus") for the insurer's defense and indemnity for lawsuits the small corporations were facing, Nautilus sought a declaration that it did not owe such duties to the small corporations for the underlying claims. The insurance policies did not contain choice-of-law provisions; as a federal court sitting in Indiana, the district court applied Indiana choice-of...

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