Kremers-Urban Co. v. American Employers Insurance Co.

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• noting that “[l]anguage in an insurance contract is to be given the common and ordinary meaning____”
• recognizing that attorney fees and expenses incurred in third-party litigation may be recovered when they are the natural and proximate result of the breach of contract or other wrongful act which has caused the plaintiff to become involved in litigation with third parties
• recognizing that attorney fees and expenses incurred in third-party litigation are recoverable \when they are the natural and proximate result of the breach of contract or other wrongful act\ that caused the plaintiff to be involved in litigation with other parties
• noting that \a statute or enforceable contract\ may render attorneys' fees recoverable, notwithstanding the general \American rule\ that each party to a lawsuit must bear its own costs of litigation
• rejecting the argument that the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, Wis. Stat. § 806.04(10), permitted an award of attorney fees by authorizing courts to \make such award of costs as may seem equitable and just\
• “The ordinary and common meaning of ‘occurrence’ is ‘something that takes place; something that happens unexpectedly and without design.’”

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