Fister v. Allstate Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that if the language of an insurance policy is unambiguous, it is to be given its plain meaning
• “It is the province of the State Legislature, not the courts, to expand the scope of [a statute].”
• \[W]e wish to avoid interpreting contract language between two parties in a manner that is void of a commonsensical perspective.\
• Courts “avoid interpreting contract language ... in a manner that is void of a commonsensical perspective”
• “Because the facts are undisputed, we are left to determine whether the trial court correctly interpreted and applied the relevant law to the uncontested facts.”
• “[A] court may not create ambiguity or uncertainty where none otherwise exists.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).