Legal Opinion
Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance v. Kevin O'Keefe & Parke O'Flaherty, Ltd.
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided October 17, 1996No. 96-0487PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDykman, P.J.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company appeals from a summary judgment dismissing its defamation claim against attorney Kevin O'Keefe and Parke O'Flaherty, Ltd., O'Keefe's law firm. The dispositive issue is whether a newspaper advertisement that O'Keefe placed in a newspaper circulated within Liberty Mutual's coverage territory is capable of a defamatory meaning. We conclude that it is not and therefore affirm.
O'Keefe represented a client in a bad faith claim against Liberty Mutual. As part of his discovery attempts, he ran the following advertisement in a newspaper:
ATTENTION
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