Houselog v. Milwaukee Guardian Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• Supreme Court of Iowa held that \prejudgment interest on judgment for damages against tort-feasor was included in underinsurance coverage for damages `for bodily injury' or `because of bodily injury'\
• Supreme Court of Iowa held that “prejudgment interest on judgment for damages against tort-feasor was included in underinsurance coverage for damages ‘for bodily injury’ or ‘because of bodily injury’ ”
• in arriving at the reasonable expectations of the insured, we construe an insurance contract from the viewpoint of a layperson, not one who possesses special expertise
• “[I]nterest is an element of compensatory damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).