Bioscience West, Inc. v. Gulfstream Property & Casualty Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the trial court's interpretation of a contractual provision was contrary to the contractual language's plain meaning
• explaining that we are bound by the plain meaning of a contract's text when interpreting a contract
• explaining that we may consult dictionaries to discern the plain meaning of contractual language
• instructing courts to construe contracts as a whole to give meaning to every provision
• defining an assignment as “a voluntary act of transferring a right or an interest.”
• “Florida case law yields deep-rooted support for the conclusion that post-loss assignments do not require an insurer's consent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).