Shelter Mutual Insurance v. Bough

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff had been made whole, and the insurer was entitled to pursue its subrogation rights
• insurer failed to show insured’s unauthorized settlement with tortfeasor and tort-feasor’s insurance carrier prejudiced its right of subrogation or possible recovery from tortfeasor or any other potentially liable party
• insurer failed to show insured's unauthorized settlement with tortfeasor and tortfeasor's insurance carrier prejudiced its right of subrogation or possible recovery from tortfeasor or any other potentially liable party
• insurer failed to show insured's unauthorized settlement with tortfeasor and tortfeasor's insurance carrier prejudiced its right of subrogation or possible recovery from tortfeasor or any other potentially liable party
• “the equitable nature of subrogation [or reimbursement] is granted an insurer to prevent the insured from receiving a double recovery. Thus, ... the general rule is that an insurer is not entitled to subrogation unless the insured has been made whole for his loss”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).