Haw. Masons' Pension Trust Fund v. Global Stone Haw., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• applying a de novo standard of review to issues of statutory construction implicated in motions for summary judgment
• “An insurance policy is a form of contract, and the interpretation of contract language is a question of law.”
• \the duty to defend comes A-2079-22 15 into being when the complaint states a claim constituting a risk insured against\
• “An insurance policy is a form of contract, and the interpretation of contract language is a question of law.”
• first citing Mayo v. City Nat'l Bank & Trust Co., 56 N.J. 111, 117 (1970); and then Gen. Accident Ins. Co. v. N.Y. Marine & Gen. Ins. Co., 320 N.J. Super. 546, 554 (App. Div.1999)
• “[C]overage provisions are to be read broadly, exclusions are to be read narrowly, potential ambiguities must be resolved in favor of the insured, and the policy is to be read in a manner that fulfills the insured’s reasonable expectations.”

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