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· 3/8/1944

Levine v. Connally

Citations

  • 267 A.D. 926
  • 47 N.Y.S.2d 602
  • 1944 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5544

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that where condition included in one provision is omitted from another, it “must be assumed to have been intentional under accepted canons of contract construction”
  • recognizing that where condition included in one provision is omitted from another, it “must be assumed to have been intentional under accepted canons of contract construction”
  • explaining that the mortgagee clause creates \an independent and separate insurance coverage for the mortgagee’s interest\
  • holding where a policy provision is “clear and unambiguous, [it] must be given [its] plain and ordinary meaning, and courts should refrain from rewriting the agreement”
  • noting that omission of a term in one provision of a contract that is included in another provision “must be assumed to have been intentional under accepted canons of construction”
  • stating that insurance contracts are liberally construed in favor of the insured

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