Dillon Companies, Inc. v. Royal Indem. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring prejudice from insured’s decision to settle without notice to insurer
• “Grants of coverage will be construed broadly and exclusions or limitations of coverage will be construed narrowly.” (citation omitted)
• “The test to be applied in determining the intention of the parties to an insurance policy is not what the insurer intended the policy to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would understand it to mean.” (citation omitted)
• “Because an insurer drafts its own contracts, it bears the responsibility of making the meaning clear, and any failure to do so will result in strict construction against the insurer [and any] ambiguities will be construed in the way most favorable to the insured.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).