Fortis Benefits v. Cantu

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts should construe contracts “as is” and not insert language by “judicial fiat”
• noting that contract rights arise from the parties’ agreement, not principles of equity and declining to “judicially rewrite the parties’ contract by engrafting extra-contractual standards”
• in insurance subrogation case, Supreme Court was “loathe to judicially rewrite the parties’ contract by engrafting extra-contractual standards” not required by law
• risk-shifting and risk-pooling \are quintessential elements of insurance contracts\
• the terms of the contract govern contractual subrogation
• Act embraces “insurer’s first-money right of subrogation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).