Angstadt v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance

The primary issues in this appeal are (1) whether the defendants in a declaratory judgment suit were denied their right to a jury trial by the trial court’s ruling that the jury was impaneled under Code § 8.01-336(E) to decide an issue out of chancery, and (2) whether the trial court erred in entering judgment contrary to the jury verdict.

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company (Atlantic) filed a declaratory judgment suit against Keith Edward Angstadt, Raymond Rask, and Multicomm Telecommunications, Inc. (Multicomm), seeking relief from any duty to pay a $2,000,000 judgment Angstadt had obtained…