Great Plains Mutual Insurance v. Mutual Reinsurance Bureau

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CROW, District Judge.

Great Plains Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. (Great Plains) brings this diversity of citizenship action against the defendant, Mutual Reinsurance Bureau (MRB). This dispute between an insurance company and its reinsurer essentially boils down to a factual dispute as to whether the damages caused by weather between August 17, 1987, and August 20, 1987, were caused by one or two *194storms. Under the terms of the reinsurance agreement, a “one storm” theory favors Great Plains; a “two storm” theory favors MRB.1

This case comes before the court upon MRB’s motion…