Court Opinion

ID: 9625945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:56:55.720842+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:18.138092
License: Public Domain

Justice SCHROEDER,
dissenting in part.
I dissent from Part III.A. of the Court’s opinion which determines that the district court correctly dismissed Stonewalls and Progressive’s direct action against Farmers. Jacks brought an action against MacDonald *326who was insured by Farmers. Farmers denied coverage of the claim. Progressive and Stonewall settled the action and sued Farmers. To understand the position of the parties it is best to set forth the entirety of the stipulation and order whereby Progressive and Stonewall sought to preserve rights against MacDonald’s insurer, Farmers, and Farmers’ agreement to the preservation of such rights if coverage existed:
Comes now Penny MacDonald and Ken A. MacDonald, husband and wife, and Jerry A. Oldham, plaintiffs, by and through their attorney of record, Ned A. Cannon, and Farmers Insurance Company of America, an Idaho corporation, by and through its attorney of record, E.L.Miller, and hereby agree and stipulate that the aforementioned plaintiffs’ claims may be dismissed with prejudice and without costs.
In accord with the Release and Agreement of Dismissal of Pending Legal Action, by and between the aforestated parties, it is understood and agreed that this Stipulation and Order for Dismissal, concludes the claims by and between defendant and Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald and Jerry A. Oldham only. The parties hereto acknowledge that the claims of the remaining plaintiffs, Stonewall Surplus Lines Insurance Company and Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, against Farmers Insurance Company of Idaho, shall not be effected or abridged by the settlement and release between the MacDonalds and Jerry Oldham and Farmers Insurance Company nor shall such claims be effected or abridged by this Stipulation and Order for Dismissal with Prejudice.
DATED this 7th day of August, 1996.
SMITH & CANNON
By: /s/ Ned A Cannon
Ned A. Cannon, of Attorneys for the
Plaintiffs MacDonald and Oldham
RAMSDEN & LYONS
By: /s/ Michael E. Ramsden
Michael E. Ramsden, of Attorneys for Stonewall Surplus Lines Insurance Company and Progressive Casualty Insurance Company
PAINE HAMBLEN COFFIN BROOKE & MILLER
By: Is/ E.L. Miller
E.L. Miller, of Attorneys for Defendant, Farmers Insurance Company of America

ORDER

Based upon the foregoing and the court finding good cause in the premises and the court finding that the claims of Stonewall Surplus Lines Insurance Company and Progressive Casualty Insurance Company against Farmers Insurance Company of Idaho, shall not be effected or abridged by this Stipulation and Order, hereby
ORDERS that the claims of Ken A. MacDonald and Penny MacDonald, husband and wife, and Jerry A. Oldham, a single person, against Farmers Insurance Company of Idaho shall be dismissed with prejudice and without costs.
DATED this 10th day of August, 1996.
/s/ Ida RudolphLeggett
JUDGE
Having paid the claim by Jacks against MacDonald, Farmers’ insured, Progressive and Stonewall should be permitted to litigate the claim MacDonald would have had against Farmers for coverage.