Great Northern Insurance v. Mount Vernon Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he goal of first-party property coverage ... is to reimburse the insured for the insured’s actual property loss.... ”
• “In insurance contracts the term ‘other insurance’ describes a situation where two or more insurance policies cover the same risk in the name of, or for the benefit of, the same personf.]”
• “{W holly different interests are protected by first-party coverage and third-party coverage.”
• “When an insured has more than one potentially applicable policy for a claim, courts determine the insurers’ obligations to the insured by applying a body of law developed to resolve ‘other insurance’ disputes . . . .”
• “[WJholly different interests are protected by first-party coverage and third-party coverage.”
• “‘Extended Insurance’ is a generic term for an endorsement added to an insurance policy or a clause found in an insurance policy that will provide additional coverage for risks to be insured other than those covered under the basic policy provisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).