Allstate Insurance Co. v. Starke

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing there is a substantive difference between prejudgment interest — which is an 17 element of compensatory damages — and postjudgment interest — which is not
• noting that the words of a contract should be given their plain meaning according to common usage
• applying the \personal injury statute\ to a liability claim against an insurer
• “Insurance policies are contracts, and must be construed to carry out the intent of the parties.”
• “prejudgment interest is an element of compensatory damages in actions for personal injuries, awarded to compensate the plaintiff for the time value of the award eventually obtained against the tortfeasor.”
• Colorado Supreme Court noted that “[t]he overwhelming majority of other jurisdictions . . . likewise hold that prejudgment interest is an element of compensatory damages, thus limiting an insurer’s liability for prejudgment interest to the policy’s damages coverage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).