Connecticut Medical Insurance v. Kulikowski

How courts have described this case

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

• “An insurance policy is to be interpreted by the same general rules that govern the construction of any written contract. . . .”
• “An insurance policy is to be interpreted by the same general rules that govern the construction of any written contract. . . .”
• “If the terms of the policy are clear and unambiguous, then the language . . . must be accorded its natural and ordinary meaning.”
• declara- tions page referenced by job title two nurse practitioners employed by physician under paramedical employee coverage
• “we must look at the contract as a whole, consider all relevant portions together and, if possible, give operative effect to every provision in order to reach a reasonable overall result” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “If the terms of the policy are clear and unambiguous, then the language, from which the intention of the parties is to be deduced, must be accorded its natural and ordinary meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).