Fratus v. Republic Western Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the contract terms “could not be clearer” and that “‘all interest’ does not mean ‘partial interest’”
• applying Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and 28 U.S.C. § 1961 to determine date that post-judgment interest would begin to accrue in diversity suit
• denying duplicative interest as inconsistent with the fundamental purpose of prejudgment interest
• “In diversity cases, state law must be applied in determining whether and how much pre-judgment interest should be awarded.”
• umbrella policy applicable to a motor tort
• “the policies mean what they say”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).