American Special Risk Management Corp. v. Cahow

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[s]imply put . . . an insured cannot obtain coverage for the risk of a known loss”
• discussing the subjective, objective, and the two-prong subjective-objective tests applied by various courts to prior knowledge exclusions, and adopting the two-prong test
• explaining that courts should construe a policy as a whole and look to the language to ascertain the intent of the parties while also considering “the situation of the parties, the nature of the subject matter, and the purpose to be accomplished”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).