Legal Opinion
Cintas Corp. No. 2 v. Becker Property Services LLC
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 2018No. 2015AP002457PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDaniel Kelly, J.
¶ 1 Becker Property Services LLC ("Becker") and Cintas Corporation No. 2 ("Cintas") executed a contract containing indemnification and choice-of-law provisions. A dispute arose over whether the contract entitles Cintas to indemnification for damages caused by its own negligence. To answer that question, we must also resolve a threshold dispute: As between Wisconsin and Ohio, which law provides the rule of decision?
¶ 2 We hold that Ohio's law governs the parties' contract, and that Becker must defend and indemnify Cintas, even for damages caused by its own negligence. Consequently, we affirm…
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