Kessler v. Old Guard Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that cause of action arising from enforcement of insurance contract ceased to exist upon entry of a final judgment
• noting that “[t]he general rule is that a plaintiff is entitled to interest on a judgment from the date of the verdict”
• even where the verdict amount had to be corrected after the date of the verdict, post judgment interest still ran from the date of the verdict
• “[T]he finality of a judgment extends not only to matters actually determined but also to matters which could properly have been raised and determined therein.”
• “[F]or purposes of computing interest, judgment and verdict are synonymous, and the date from which interest accrues is the date of verdict, not the date judgment is finally entered.”
• “The law does not permit the owner of a single cause of action to divide or split that cause so as to make it the subject of several actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).