Cragg v. Allstate Indemnity Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Insurance contracts must be interpreted according to common speech and consistent with the reasonable expectations of the average insured[.]”
• “Insurance contracts must be interpreted according to common speech and consistent with the reasonable expectations of the average insured.” (citation omitted)
• “Insurance contracts must be interpreted according to common speech and consistent with the reasonable expectations of the average insured.”
• “[A] wrongful death action belongs to the decedent’s distributees and is designed to compensate the distributees themselves for their pecuniary losses as a result of the wrongful act.”
• “[W]hen seeking to avoid coverage based on a policy exclusion, the insurer must establish that the exclusion applies in the case, and that the exclusion is not subject to any other reasonable interpretation.”
• “Insurance contracts must be interpreted according to common speech.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).