Government Employees Insurance v. DeJames

How courts have described this case

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• holding that collapse is ambiguous because the word has a more restrictive meaning when used as a verb as when used as a noun
• holding collapse is ambiguous because verb has restrictive meaning and noun has more liberal meaning including “breakdown in strength” and, thus, resolving ambiguity in favor of insured to include any serious impairment of structural integrity
• holding collapse is ambiguous because verb has restrictive meaning and noun has more liberal meaning, including “breakdown in strength,” and thus resolving ambiguity in favor of insured to include any serious impairment of structural integrity
• in construing insurance policy which provides coverage for collapse but excludes coverage for settling, cracking, etc., collapse encompasses settling, cracking, etc., which materially impairs structural integrity of building
• finding ambiguous the term “collapse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).