Jaw the Pointe, L.L.C. v. Lexington Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding the applicability of an anti-concurrent causation clause under Texas law
• “Generally, an endorsement or rider that provides specific coverage trumps an exclusion contained within the policy’s primary forms.”
• “To avoid liability, the insurer then has the burden to plead and prove that the loss falls within an exclusion to the policy’s coverage.”
• when terms in an insurance policy are subject to more than one reasonable construction, we interpret the terms in favor of coverage
• “Initially, the insured has the burden of establishing coverage under the terms of the policy.”
• “As a general rule there can be no claim for bad faith when an insurer has promptly denied a claim that is in fact not covered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).