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.”

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Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Arch v. American Tobacco Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-06-03· cited 68×
• Osial v. Cook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-27· cited 44×
• Allegheny Energy Supply Co. v. Wolf Run Mining Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-13· cited 42×
• Lucas v. Porter
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2008-08-28· cited 31×
• Barnes v. American Tobacco Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1997-08-22· cited 29×
• Pettit v. Namie
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-10· cited 28×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-03-17· cited 27×
• In Re Estate of Braun
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-14· cited 22×
• Public School Bldg. Auth. v. Quandel
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-14· cited 19×
• Burkholder v. Cherry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-27· cited 17×
• Equitable Gas Co. v. Wade
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-31· cited 16×
• Stone v. Kentucky Insurance Guaranty Ass'n
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1995-10-27· cited 14×
• Lowenschuss v. Selnick
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-03-17· cited 7×
• Johnson v. Singleton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-26· cited 6×
• First Nat. Bank of Northeast v. Gooslin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-09· cited 6×
• Green Valley Dry Cleaners, Inc. v. Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-16· cited 5×
• Musko v. Musko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-07· cited 3×
• In re Pennsylvania Diet Drugs Litigation
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-03-12· cited 3×
• In Re Foy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2012-04-11· cited 2×
• Pioneer Commercial Funding Corp. v. American Financial Mortgage Corp.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-12-04· cited 2×

Other cases named Kessler v. Old Guard Mutual Insurance

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Kessler v. Old Guard Mutual Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-24· cited 1×