Legal Opinion
Lodl v. Progressive Northern Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 25, 2002No. 00-0221PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶ 1. DIANE S. SYKES, J.
This case concerns the scope and proper application of the judicially-created "known danger" exception to municipal and public officer immunity under Wis. Stat. § 893.80(4) (1997-98).1
¶ 2. The plaintiff Susan Lodi was injured in an intersection accident in the Town of Pewaukee. The *330traffic control lights at the intersection were inoperable because of an evening storm, and só the Town of Pewaukee dispatched a police officer to the scene. Lodi sued the officer and the Town, claiming that the officer negligently failed to control traffic at the intersection, and that the…
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