Kitsap County v. Allstate Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘trespass, ’ which Black’s Law Dictionary defines as ‘[a]n unlawful interference with one’s... property, or rights____Any unauthorized intrusion or invasion of private premises or land of another.’ ”
• “If terms are defined in a policy, then the term should be interpreted in accordance with that policy definition. Undefined terms, however, must be given their ‘plain, ordinary, and popular meaning.’ ”
• court should “give effect to every clause in the policy”
• court should \give effect to every clause in the policy\
• “[W]hen a federal court certifies a question to this court, this court answers only the discrete question that is certified and lacks jurisdiction to go beyond the question presented.” (citing La.-Pac. Corp. v. Asarco Inc., 131 Wn.2d 587, 604, 934 P.2d 685 (1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).