# Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. v. Wasmuth

> Court of Appeals of Minnesota · December 13, 1988 · 432 N.W.2d 495

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9883722

## Case

- **Full name:** GRINNELL MUTUAL REINSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Lowell WASMUTH, Et Al., Respondents, CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, Et Al., Defendants, Edwin Carlson, D/B/A Eddie’s Insulation, Respondent
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Minnesota
- **Decided:** December 13, 1988
- **Citations:** 432 N.W.2d 495; 1988 Minn. App. LEXIS 1221; 1988 WL 130884
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Forsberg
- **Judges:** Heard
- **Cited by:** 37 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled by Board of Regents v. Royal Insurance Co. of America, 1994 Minn. LEXIS 436 (1994).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9883722

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- describing the “narrowly recognized doctrine” and the “unusual case requiring application of Atwater”

## Opinion text

FORSBERG, Judge
(concurring specially):
I concur. I agree that this case is governed by the reasonable expectations doctrine. See Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co., 366 N.W.2d 271 (Minn.1985). I do not agree that the insurance clause was ambiguous nor that the occurrence was “sudden.”

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