Laidlaw v. Commercial Insurance Co. of Newark

How courts have described this case

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• affirming award of total disability benefits to injured attorney, even though he continued to earn substantial income
• affirming award of total disability benefits to injured attorney, even though he continued to earn substantial income
• involving interpretation of the phrase “period for which the (Company) is liable” and holding that an insured’s income is not relevant to a finding of total disability
• analyzing a 23 policy in which payments “were to continue indefinitely for any general disability which 24 prevented plaintiff from engaging in any gainful employment for which he was suited”
• “The usual rule of construction most favorable to the insured does not apply to a [policy] provision required by statute.”
• \The usual rule of construction most favorable to the insured does not apply to a provision required by statute.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).