Title: Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. v. Estate of Keenan

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. v. Estate of Keenan (2006-130)

2007 VT 86

[Filed 31-Aug-2007]

  NOTICE:  This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P.
  40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. 
  Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Vermont Supreme
  Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05609-0801 of any errors in
  order that corrections may be made before this opinion goes to press.


                                 2007 VT 86

                                No. 2006-130


  Progressive Casualty Insurance Company         Supreme Court

                                                 On Appeal from
       v.                                        Bennington Superior Court


  Estate of Shaun P. Keenan, Daniel Keenan,      October Term, 2006
  Shawn Macomber, Christopher Potter, 
  Carlos Dobbins, Ryan Monroe and 
  York Insurance Company of Maine, Inc.


  John P. Wesley, J.

  Stephen D. Ellis of Ellis & Boxer, Springfield, for Defendant-Appellant
  York Insurance Company.

  Donald W. Goodrich of Donovan & O'Connor, LLP, Bennington, for
  Defendants-Appellees Keenan.

  D. Patrick Winburn of Winburn Law Offices, Bennington, for
  Defendant-Appellee Monroe.

  PRESENT:   Reiber, C.J., Dooley, Johnson and Skoglund, JJ., and Allen,
  C.J., (Ret.),  Specially Assigned

        
       ¶ 1.   REIBER, C.J.  In this appeal, we revisit the meaning of the
  term "double recovery" as used in 21 V.S.A. § 624(e) and interpreted by the
  Court in Travelers Insurance Co. v. Henry, 2005 VT 68, 178 Vt. 287,