American Media, Inc. v. Home Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• if language in insurance policy is clear and unambiguous, it must be taken in its plain, ordinaiy, and popular sense
• Insurance company prepares the contracts and has a duty to make the meaning clear. If it fails to do so, the insurer must suffer, not the insured.
• “Where terms of a policy of insurance are ambiguous or uncertain, conflicting or susceptible of more than one construction, the construction most favorable to the insured must prevail.”
• Insurance company prepares the contracts and has a duty to make the meaning clear. If it fails to do so, the insurer must suffer, not the insured.
• “To be ambiguous the contract must contain provisions or language of doubtful or conflicting meaning, as gleaned from a natural and reasonable interpretation of its language.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).