Midwest Mutual Insurance v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring proof of a judgment before proceeding against an insurance carrier
• stating that “where two or more persons are liable to pay a claim and one or more of them pays the whole of it, or more than his or her share, the one so paying may generally recover from the others the ratable proportion of the claim that each ought to pay” (emphases and citation omitted)
• language of statute makes notice to insurance carrier mandatory and establishes a condition precedent to the benefits of the statute unless waived by the insurance carrier.
• no right of contribution without judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).