Brazas Sporting Arms, Inc. v. American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that claim of negligently flooding market with firearms fell within products liability exclusion to commercial liability policy because “firearms were the immediate source of the plaintiffs’ injuries”
• instructing that courts consider the plain and ordinary meaning of policy language
• “[‘Arising out of’] falls somewhere between proximate and ‘but for’ causation—an intermediate causation standard”
• “[‘Arising out of’] falls somewhere between proximate and ‘but for’ causation—an intermediate causation standard”
• construing Massachusetts law and concluding that, in the context of insurance coverage, \arising out of\ is an \intermediate causation standard\ that \falls somewhere between - 5 - proximate and 'but for' causation\
• “[I]t does not follow that ambiguity exists solely because the parties disagree as to the provision's meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).