Highwoods Properties, Inc. v. Executive Risk Indemnity, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• defining a “series” as “a number of things or events of the same class coming one after another in spacial or temporal succession.”
• applying North Carolina law, noting that “the same language may be found both ambiguous and unambiguous as applied to different facts”
• finding two cases met the definition of related because they arose from the same merger process, even though they did not arise out of identical facts
• stating the “meaning of the terms ‘related’ and ‘series’ do have common meanings sufficiently clear to be applied” and therefore, concluding a related claims provision in a policy was not ambiguous
• applying North Carolina law and finding that two separate lawsuits are related for policy coverage purposes because both suits have an “established connection or resemblance” related to some separate communications to individuals
• “In diversity cases, we apply the choice of law principles of the state in which the district court.is located.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).