Title: Debra L. Kontowicz v. American Standard Insurance Co. of Wisconsin
Citation: 2006 WI 90
Docket Number: 2003AP002177
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: July 7, 2006

2006 WI 90 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2003AP2177 & 2003AP2534 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
Debra L. Kontowicz, Keith A. Kontowicz, Scott 
Kontowicz, Katie Kontowicz by their Guardian ad 
Litem, William Cannon, 
          Plaintiffs-Respondents-Petitioners, 
 
American Family Mutual Insurance Co., 
          Involuntary-Plaintiff, 
     v. 
American Standard Insurance Co. of Wisconsin, 
          Defendant-Appellant, 
 
ABC Insurance Co., 
          Defendant. 
 
 
Larry Buyatt, 
          Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, 
 
American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 
          Involuntary-Plaintiff, 
     v. 
Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance 
Company and Jason E. Schoessow, 
          Defendants-Appellants. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION 
2006 WI 48 
Reported at: ___ Wis. 2d ___, 714 N.W.2d 105 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
July 7, 2006   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
 
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
 
 
COUNTY: 
 
 
JUDGE: 
 
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
 
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: WILCOX, J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2006 WI 90
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  2003AP2177 & 2003AP2534  
(L.C. No. 
2001CV697 & 2001CV1120) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
Debra L. Kontowicz, Keith A. Kontowicz, Scott 
Kontowicz and Katie Kontowicz, by their 
Guardian ad Litem, William Cannon, 
 
          Plaintiffs-Respondents-Petitioners, 
 
American Family Mutual Insurance Co., 
 
          Involuntary-Plaintiff, 
 
     v. 
 
American Standard Insurance Co. of Wisconsin, 
 
          Defendant-Appellant, 
 
ABC Insurance Co., 
 
          Defendant. 
 
FILED 
 
JUL 7, 2006 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
Larry Buyatt, 
 
          Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, 
 
American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 
 
          Involuntary-Plaintiff, 
 
     v. 
 
Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance 
Company and Jason E. Schoessow, 
 
          Defendants-Appellants. 
 
 
 
 
No. 
2003AP2177 & 2003AP2534   
 
 
 
MOTION for reconsideration.  Reconsideration denied.   
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   American Standard Insurance Company, the 
defendant-appellant, moves the court to clarify or reconsider 
its decision in Kontowicz v. American Standard Insurance Co., 
2006 WI 48, ___ Wis. 2d ___, 714 N.W.2d 105, with regard to the 
portions of that decision addressing the calculation of Wis. 
Stat. § 628.46 interest.  American Standard asserts that the 
decision contains language as to the accrual date for § 628.46 
interest that may be confusing to litigants, lawyers and courts 
as they apply our Kontowicz decision. 
¶2 
We 
deny 
American 
Standard's 
motion 
for 
reconsideration, because it meets none of the criteria for 
granting such a motion.  See Wis. S. Ct. IOP II-J (March 16, 
2000).   
¶3 
However, in the interest of clarifying our opinion to 
facilitate its application, we agree to clarify that Wis. Stat. 
§ 628.46 interest begins to run on an overdue claim 30 days 
after the claimant provides the statutorily required notice (33 
days in situations where the claimant mails the statutorily 
required notice to the insurer), and in order to so clarify, we 
withdraw the following words from the last sentence of ¶53 in 
Kontowicz: "consistent with the determination of the circuit 
court, § 628.46."  As clarified, the last sentence now provides:  
We, therefore, hold that as of January 8, 2001, the 
statutory 30-day period after which interest would 
accrue began running on $238,379.53 of Kontowicz's 
No. 
2003AP2177 & 2003AP2534   
 
2 
 
claim, and on August 2, 2001, the 30 days began to run 
on the full $500,000 claim. 
Footnote 18 explains the rule applicable when service of the 
notice is made by mail.  
¶4 
Further, we direct the Waukesha County Circuit Court 
to apply this clarified statement for calculating Wis. Stat. 
§ 628.46 interest on the Kontowicz claims. 
¶5 
JON P. WILCOX, J., did not participate.