Title: Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc. v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

2023 WI 42 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2021AP635 
 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc., 
          Plaintiff-Appellant, 
     v. 
Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, 
          Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner. 
 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS  
Reported at 404 Wis. 2d 337, 979 N.W.2d 627 
PDC No: 2022 WI App 45  
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
May 24, 2023   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
March 15, 2023   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit    
 
COUNTY: 
Waukesha   
 
JUDGE: 
Ralph M. Ramirez   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
Per curiam. 
NOT PARTICIPATING: 
BRIAN HAGEDORN, J., withdrew from participation.   
ANNETTE KINGSLAND ZIEGLER, C.J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
 
For the defendant-respondent-petitioner, there were briefs 
filed by Michael J. Cohen, Pamela J. Tillman, James M. Sosnoski, 
Caleb R. Gerbitz, and Meisser, Tierney, Fisher & Nichols, S.C., 
Milwaukee. There was an oral argument by Michael J. Cohen.  
 
For the plaintiff-appellant, there was a brief filed by Lee 
M. Seese, Kimberly A. Streff, and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, 
Milwaukee, and Jeffrey S. Raskin, David S. Cox, David B. 
Salmons, Brendan J. Anderson and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, 
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. There was an 
oral argument by David B. Salmons.  
 
 
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An amicus curiae brief was filed by Heidi L. Vogt, Janet E. 
Cain and von Briesen & Roper, s.c., Milwaukee, for the Complex 
Insurance Claims Litigation Association.  
 
An amicus curiae brief was filed by Raj Patel, Robert J. 
Gilbert, Michael L. Huggins, and Latham & Watkins, LLP, Chicago, 
Boston, and San Diego, for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce 
and Emerson Electric Company.  
 
An amicus curiae brief was filed by James A. Friedman, 
Daniel C.W. Narvey, and Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Madison, for the 
Wisconsin Insurance Alliance.  
 
 
2023 WI 42 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.   2021AP635 
(L.C. No. 
2019CV1307) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc., 
 
          Plaintiff-Appellant, 
 
     v. 
 
Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, 
 
          Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner. 
FILED 
 
MAY 24, 2023 
 
Sheila T. Reiff 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed. 
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   Employers Insurance Company of Wausau 
(Wausau) petitioned for review of a court of appeals decision, 
Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc. v. Employers 
Insurance of Wausau, 2022 WI App 45, 404 Wis. 2d 337, 979 
N.W.2d 627, which reversed a circuit court order granting 
summary judgment for Wausau and denying partial summary judgment 
for Pepsi.  No three justices reach agreement to either affirm, 
reverse, or affirm in part and reverse in part the court of 
appeals decision.  Because the court did not reach a majority as 
to the mandate, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed. 
¶2 
BRIAN HAGEDORN, J., withdrew from participation.   
No. 
2021AP635   
 
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¶3 
ANNETTE KINGSLAND ZIEGLER, C.J., did not participate. 
No. 
2021AP635   
 
 
 
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