BMD CONTRACTORS v. Fidelity and Deposit Co. of Md.

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Indiana law and rejecting an \unnatural\ reading of a contract
• \easily reject [ing]\ public policy challenge to \pay-if-paid\ clause given Indiana's \strong background presumption favoring freedom of contract\
• “If the state supreme court has not spoken on a particular issue, then decisions of the intermediate appellate court will control unless there are persuasive indications that the state supreme court would decide the issue differently.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).