Skauge v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insured is entitled to be made whole for his or her entire loss and any costs of recovery, including attorney fees, before insurer can assert its right of legal subrogation
• “the person substituted will succeed to the rights of the creditor in relation to the debt or claim.”
• “the person substituted will succeed to the rights of the creditor in relation to the debt or claim.”
• policy language provided for assignment of “all right of recovery against any party for loss to the extent that payment therefore [sic] is made by this Company”
• policy language provided for assignment of “all right of recovery against any party for loss to the extent that payment therefore [sic] is made by this Company”
• “[T]he insured is entitled to be made whole for his entire loss and any costs of recovery, including attorney’s fees, before the insurer can assert its right of legal subrogation against the insured or the tort-feasor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).