· 3/25/2009
Alexander Manufacturing, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan & Trust v. Illinois Union Insurance
Citations
- 560 F.3d 984
- 46 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1669
- 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 6396
- 2009 WL 764561
How courts have described this case
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- relying 7 in part on Black’s Law Dictionary definition to interpret ambiguous term in contract
- “[I]f one possible meaning of a term is not reasonable in light of the other provisions of the policy, leaving only the other reasonable interpretation of the term, there is no remaining ambiguity.”
- “If the phrase in question has more than one plausible interpretation, the court must then examine the context in which the phrase is used and the broader context of the policy as a whole”
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Judges: Graber, Fisher, Smith
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