American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Schaefer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that unambiguous language of insurance contract did not impose obligation to compensate insured for “diminished market value”
• holding that courts “may neither rewrite the parties’ contract nor add to its language”
• noting that, where an obligation to pay for diminished value is not included in the policy's language, the lack of an exclusion \cannot confer coverage\
• noting that an ambiguity exists when the contract language is susceptible to two or more reasonable interpretations
• explaining that courts “must give effect to all contractual provisions so that none will be rendered meaningless”
• noting that the court “may neither rewrite the parties’ contract nor add to its language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).