Brandon v. West Bend Mutual Insurance Co.

' WIGGINS, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal, the primary issue presented is whether an insured who has brought an action against an insurer for uninsured and underinsured motorist benefits may discover privileged communications between outside counsel employed by the insurer to pursue its subrogation interests against the underinsured driver and the insurer’s claims adjuster and in-house counsel, made in the course of the prior litigation against the underinsured driver, on the basis of the joint-client exception to the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. On our…