International Fidelity Insurance v. County of Rockland

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• recognizing that “[s]ophisticated lawyers . . . must be presumed to know how to use parallel construction and identical wording to impart identical meaning when they intend to do so, and how to use different words and construction to establish distinctions in meaning”
• requiring Section 14.2 procedures for amendment, but requiring action by Board of Directors for suspension or termination
• paragraph 3 of AIA 312 form did not establish conditions precedent to surety’s liability for indemnification where construction contract contained separate indemnification provision
• “not every breach justifies a declaration of default and termination of the contract” (citation omitted)
• “Sophisticated lawyers . . . must be presumed to know . . . how to use different words and construction to establish distinctions in meaning.”
• “New York courts have held that if the contract actually uses 3 the term ‘condition precedent,’ then the term will be construed as a condition rather than simply a promise.”

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