Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. v. Jdc (America) Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “duty to defend is broader than the duty to indemnify.”
• “Generally stated, the provision [at issue] insures against defects in the mortgage itself, but not against problems arising from or related to the underlying debt”
• “Questions of fact arise only when an ambiguous contract term forces the court to turn to extrinsic evidence of the parties’ intent, such as precontract negotiations, to interpret the disputed term.”
• “Questions of fact arise only when an ambiguous contract term forces the court to turn to extrinsic evidence of the parties’ intent, such as precontract negotiations, to interpret the disputed term.”
• stated another way, “the ‘actual facts’ of the situation are not pertinent” (quoting Baron Oil Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 470 So. 2d 810, 814 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)
• “Contract in- terpretation is generally a question of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).