Legal Opinion
Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 1976No. 75-1607PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TONE, Circuit Judge.
This case is an outgrowth of a California personal injury action in which a large judgment was recovered against Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC), plaintiff here. The defendants here, two insurance companies and a California lawyer, are charged with having failed to defend OMC properly in that action.
In July 1971 one Vladimir Sabich was injured when an OMC “Trackster,” an all-terrain motor vehicle in which he was riding, overturned. He filed a suit against OMC in a California state court, alleging that the vehicle was defectively designed and that OMC had known this but…
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