Insurance Coverage

By: Derek Hawkins//July 11, 2016//

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WI Supreme Court

Case Name: Water Well Solutions Services Group, Inc. v. Consolidated Insurance Company

Case No.: 2014AP2484

Focus: Insurance Coverage

Insurance provider did not breach its duty of defend. Court will not craft exception to four-corners rule

“We recognized this in Doyle when we soundly rejected an assertion, based on Berg, suggesting a court should look beyond the four corners of the complaint to determine whether an insurer had breached its duty to defend. Doyle, 219 Wis. 2d at 284 n.3. A year later, citing our footnote in Doyle, we again declined to recognize an exception to the four-corners duty to defend rule. Smith v. Katz, 226 Wis. 2d 798, 815-16, 595 N.W.2d 345 (1999).

Affirmed

Concurring:

Dissenting: BRADLEY, A. W., J. and ABRAHAMSON, J. dissent (Opinion filed).

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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