Commercial Standard Insurance Co. v. American General Insurance 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 in insurance policy with severability clause, “‘[t]he insured’ does not refer to all insureds; rather the term is used to refer to each insured as a separate and distinct individual apart from any and every other person who may be entitled to coverage thereunder”
• relying on the following definition of “severally”: “[d]istinctly, separately, apart from others . . . .When applied to a number of persons the expression [s]everally liable usually implies that each one is liable alone”
• “ ‘The insured’ does not refer to all insureds; rather, the term is used to refer to each insured as a separate and distinct individual apart from any and every other person who may be entitled to coverage thereunder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).