Jacobs v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]here the words of an insurance contract are ‘plain and free from ambiguity they must be construed in their usual and ordinary sense.’ ”
• “[E]very word and phrase must be presumed to have been employed with a purpose and must be given meaning and effect whenever practicable____”
• the phrase “named insured” has a clear and explicit meaning, namely, the individual or entity listed on the declarations page
• “ ‘Named insured’ has a clear and explicit meaning. It is the individual or entity who is listed on the declarations page”
• “ ‘Named insured’ has a clear and explicit meaning. It is the individual or entity who is listed on the declarations page”
• employee of the corporation was not the named insured for purposes of the underinsured motorist coverage of a standard insurance policy that listed the corporation as the named insured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).