Gillen v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when “policy language is susceptible to more than one reasonable meaning, it is considered ambiguous and will be construed against the insurer”
• explaining that when “policy language is susceptible to more than one reasonable meaning, it is considered ambiguous and will be construed against the insurer”
• emphasizing that the key inquiry in interpreting insurance policies is what “the average person, for whom the policy is written, would reasonably understand”
• stating that undefined terms will be given their “plain, ordinary and popular meaning, i.e., they will be construed with reference to the average, ordinary, normal, reasonable person”
• “A decision of our appellate court may only be reversed or overruled by this court”
• Justice Fitzgerald, writing for a unanimous court, acknowledging that “[i]f the policy language is susceptible to more than one reasonable meaning, it is considered ambiguous and will be construed against the insurer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).