COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INSURANCE COMPANY v. Orth

How courts have described this case

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

• court applied clause in insurance policy allowing insured to release others from liability “from whatever cause arising”
• “Where there is no danger of a harsh result, and where the parties have expressed their intent with reasonable clarity, contractual immunity from a party’s own negligence is a matter for negotiation.”
• upheld waiver of right to seek damages in excess of insurance coverage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).