Impresa Construzioni Geom. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that contractual rights are to be interpreted with reference to the statutory law in effect at the time the parties contracted
• the statutory law at the time of contracting, not the time of the accident nor the time of exhaustion of available underlying liability coverage, governs a claim for underinsured motorists coverage
• “‘[c]ontracts must be expounded according to the law in force at the time they were made; and the parties are as much bound by a provision contained in a law, as if that provision had been inserted in, and formed part of the contract’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).