Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Lone Star Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that policy in question contained both asbestos exclusion and silicosis exclusion
• noting that “if the court concludes that the exclusion via endorsement is clear and unambiguous, then the insurer will have carried its burden of proving an exclusion to a risk otherwise generally insured against”
• court looked to available authorities when parties’ briefs and its independent research revealed no case directly on point
• endorsement is ‘‘[a] written or printed form attached to the policy which alters provisions of the contract’’ [emphasis added; internal quotation marks omitted]
• \A declaratory judgment action is not ... a procedural panacea for use on all occasions ... [and it] does not create jurisdiction where it would not otherwise exist.\
• ‘‘[t]he right of appeal is accorded only if the conditions fixed by statute and the rules of court for taking and prosecuting the appeal are met’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).