Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Frederick W. Hughes, as of the Estate of Andy Warhol v. Federal Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an ambiguous insurance policy should be “construed in favor of coverage and against the insurer, because as the drafter of the policy the insurer is responsible for the ambiguity”
• holding the term “claim,” undefined in the policy, was ambiguous
• “Where its terms are reasonably susceptible to more than one interpretation, the policy must be regarded as ambiguous.”
• demand letter did not constitute “claim” where person demanding relief did not own claim asserted
• “[A]n insurance policy, like any contract, must be construed to effectuate the intent of the parties as derived from the plain meanings of the policy’s terms.”
• “[A]n insurance policy, like any contract, must be construed to effectuate the intent of the parties as derived from the plain meaning of the policy’s terms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).