Invenergy Nelson, LLC v. Rock Falls Township High School District No. 301

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• holding that where there is no promise to directly benefit another party, that party is not an intended third-party beneficiary
• concluding that business patrons constitute “too broad” a class “to qualify for third-party status” absent specific language in the contract bestowing third-party 24 beneficiary status
• holding that injured party was “not a third-party beneficiary of the [insurance] contract”
• finding that plaintiff injured at a bar was not a third-party beneficiary to insurance contract between the bar and its insurer
• “Nothing in the insurance policy specifically designates Schmalfeldt, or the class of business patrons of the insured of which he was one, as an intended third-party beneficiary of the medical benefits provision. At best, the policy recognizes the possibility of some incidental benefit to [him].”
• “Nothing in the insurance policy specifically designates Schmalfeldt, or the class of business patrons of the insured of which he was one, as an intended third-party beneficiary of the medical benefits provision. At best, the policy recognizes the possibility of some incidental benefit to [him].”

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