Legal Opinion
Monticello Insurance v. Dion
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 3, 2005No. 04-P-766PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, C.J.
Defendant Paul Dion, doing business as All the Answers Tree Service, was making a chain saw cut preparatory to felling a large tree when the tree snapped and fell the wrong way. It struck and killed defendant Price’s decedent, Doreen C. Mellen, who was a cousin of Dion and who had been operating a wood-chipping machine on the same job. It is not unlikely that the noise from the machine made it impossible for Mellen to hear Dion’s shouted warning.
*47Dion carried a commercial general liability policy written by the plaintiff, Monticello Insurance Company (Monticello), which brought this…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Vernon v. SchusterIllinois Supreme Court · 1997
- Bituminous Casualty Corporation v. J & L Lumber Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
- Bagley v. Monticello InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Scribner's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1918
- American Family Mutual Insurance Co. v. TickleMissouri Court of Appeals · 2003
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- CERTAIN INTERESTED UNDERWRITERS v. StolbergCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2012
- GAVAN v. Bituminous Casualty CorporationSupreme Court of Missouri · 2008
- Carl's Italian Restaurant v. Truck Insurance ExchangeColorado Court of Appeals · 2007
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