American Family Mutual Insurance Co. v. Auto-Owners Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the case-by-case approach “is the best approach to employ in the landlord-tenant context because it applies basic contract principles”
• concluding that “subrogation may be appropriate where the lease does not require the landlord to purchase [property] insurance or the lease requires the tenants to purchase their own insurance to cover liabilities resulting from their negligence”
• allowing an insurer to maintain a subrogation action after examining the lease and “[considering the equitable underpinnings of subrogation”
• allowing an insurer to maintain a subrogation action after examining the lease and “[c]onsidering the equitable underpinnings of subrogation”
• collecting state law cases that have adopted or repudiated the Su`t`ton Ru`le

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).