Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Aetna Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding in the insurance context that “war” must be “between sovereign or quasi- sovereign states”
• declining to find that mortar shelling by Palestinian and Lebanese factions in Beirut fell within war exclusions
• noting civil commotion requires that “the agents causing the disorder [ ] gather together and cause a disturbance and tumult”
• describing battle for possession of a district in Beirut waged by militia forces
• refusing to apply exclusion for “war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not)” to Palestinian and Lebanese sub-national factions’ shelling of a Holiday Inn in Beirut (emphasis added)
• “[N]o such group with that specific intent [“to overthrow the central government [of Lebanon]”] existed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).