FORCE v. AMERICAN FAMILY MUT. INS. CO.

No. 2012AP2402.

850 N.W.2d 866 (2014)

2014 WI 82

Hailey Marie-Joe FORCE, a/k/a Hailey Marie-Joe Dziewa, a minor, by her Guardian Ad Litem, Joseph J. WELCENBACH, Plaintiff-Appellant, The Estate of Billy Joe Force, by its Special Administrator, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Jeffrey A. Brown and Regent Insurance Company, Defendants-Respondents. Mehgan Force, a minor, by her Guardian ad Litem, Jason Oldenburg, and Lauren Force, a minor, by her Guardian ad Litem, Jason Oldenburg, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY and Jeffrey A. Brown, Defendants-Respondents, Regent Insurance Company, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants, there were briefs by Joseph J. Welcenbach and Welcenbach Law Offices, S.C., Milwaukee, and Jason R. Oldenburg and The Previant Law Firm, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Joseph J. Welcenbach.

For the defendant-respondent American Family Mutual Insurance Company and Jeffrey A. Brown, there was a brief by James C. Ratzel , Leslie A. Schunk , and Ratzel & Associates, LLC, Brookfield, and oral argument by Leslie A. Schunk.

For the defendant-respondent Regent Insurance Company there was a brief by Donald H. Piper , Jon D. Monson , and Piper & Schmidt, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Donald H. Piper.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Susan R. Tyndell , Peter M. Young , D. James Weis , and Habush Habush & Rottier, S.C., Rhinelander, on behalf of the Wisconsin Association for Justice.


SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, C.J.

¶ 1 This is an appeal of a judgment of the circuit court for Waukesha County, J. Mac Davis, Judge, granting summary judgment in favor of Jeffrey Brown, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, and Regent Insurance Company (collectively the defendants). The part of the judgment at issue here dismissed the consolidated actions of Hailey Marie-Joe Force, Mehgan Force, and Lauren Force, collectively the minor children of Billy Joe Force...

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