J.K.J. v. POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, 15-cv-428-wmc (2015)
Court: District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Number: infdco20151104c05
Visitors: 21
Filed: Nov. 03, 2015
Latest Update: Nov. 03, 2015
Summary: ORDER WILLIAM M. CONLEY , District Judge . Before the court are unopposed motions to intervene by Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corporation ("WCMIC"), which seeks to litigate insurance coverage issues in the two above-captioned cases related to the public entity liability policies it issued to defendant Polk County. ('428 dkt. #11; '433 dkt. #11.) The motions are unopposed; neither plaintiffs nor defendants filed any response to the motions. For the reasons previously provided by the co
Summary: ORDER WILLIAM M. CONLEY , District Judge . Before the court are unopposed motions to intervene by Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corporation ("WCMIC"), which seeks to litigate insurance coverage issues in the two above-captioned cases related to the public entity liability policies it issued to defendant Polk County. ('428 dkt. #11; '433 dkt. #11.) The motions are unopposed; neither plaintiffs nor defendants filed any response to the motions. For the reasons previously provided by the cou..
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ORDER
WILLIAM M. CONLEY, District Judge.
Before the court are unopposed motions to intervene by Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corporation ("WCMIC"), which seeks to litigate insurance coverage issues in the two above-captioned cases related to the public entity liability policies it issued to defendant Polk County. ('428 dkt. #11; '433 dkt. #11.) The motions are unopposed; neither plaintiffs nor defendants filed any response to the motions. For the reasons previously provided by the court in Richardson v. Helgerson, No. 15-cv-141-wmc, slip op. at *2-5 (W.D. Wis. May 26, 2015) (dkt. #14), WCMIC may intervene as of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a). Accordingly, the court will grant the motion but also cautions WCMIC, as it did previously, that unlike Wisconsin state courts, this court does not generally grant requests to bifurcate trial on the issues of coverage and liability, nor does it generally stay liability issues until coverage is determined. Accordingly, WCMIC is encouraged to move promptly on any issues of coverage that may be decided as a matter of law. In return, the court will endeavor to render a decision promptly on that motion.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corporation's unopposed motions to intervene ('428 dkt. #11; '433 dkt. #11) are GRANTED.
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