Exxon Corporation v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• “ambiguity is to be construed in favor of the insured and a provision which seeks to narrow an insurer’s obligation is to be construed against the insurer.”
• for federal court to consider the propriety of a stay pending disposition of a state court action, the federal and state court actions must involve the same parties and issues
• “This circuit has clearly held that in order to consider the propriety of a stay pending disposition of state court actions, the federal and state cases must be parallel, meaning that they involve the same parties and the same issues.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).