FTI International, Inc. v. Cincinnati Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a dispute regarding whether the insured was entitled to the replacement cost or the sales price of the damaged property required the application of principles of contractual interpretation
• holding that questions of law are not within the scope of appraisal
• noting Illinois public policy in favor of appraisal, but finding the dispute over conflicting portions of the insurance policy to be beyond the scope of appraisal
• “Committing questions of contract interpretation to an appraiser, whose primary function is to ascertain the value of property or the amount of a loss, is simply not consistent with the nature of an appraisal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).