Chase v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting similar attempt to create ambiguity in a policy based on the related ejusdem generis principle of interpretation
• “[P]urchasers of insurance may often retain expectations that are contrary to the language of their policies. . . . Nonetheless, the reasonable 2 expectations doctrine is not a mandate for courts to rewrite insurance policies . . . .”
• “The . . . exclusion [in an insurance contract] may appear absolute when read in isolation, but its application may be limited by other provisions which the court, in ruling on a motion for summary judgment with the policy before it, must not ignore.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).