Cairns v. Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts will not “write a new contract of insurance between the parties” (quoting Stover v. State Farm Mut. Ins., 189 N.W.2d 588, 591 (Iowa 1971))
• stating that courts will not “write a new contract of insurance between the parties” (quoting Stover v. State Farm Mut. Ins., 189 N.W.2d 588, 591 (Iowa 1971))
• ambiguity does not exist merely because provision could have been worded more clearly or precisely than it was
• “Reasonable expectations ... may be established by evidence of the underlying negotiations or may be inferred from the circumstances under which the policy was provided and issued.”
• “[W]e have consistently reasoned that qualifying words and phrases ordinarily refer only to the immediately preceding antecedent.”
• “[W]e adhere to the proposition that ‘a contract should be read and interpreted as an entirety rather than seriatim by clauses.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).