Legal Opinion
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church & School Freistadt v. Tower Insurance Co.
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided January 30, 2002No. 01-1201PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
¶ 1. Tower Insurance Company (Tower) appeals the judgment in favor of its insured, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and School-Freistadt (Trinity), entered on a jury's verdict finding that punitive damages attached to a bad faith finding made by the trial court and awarding punitive damages in the amount of $3,500,000. Tower's principal contentions are that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for Trinity on the issue of bad faith and erred as a matter of law by submitting punitive damages to the jury. Tower additionally contends that the punitive damages verdict was not…
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