Louis P. River, III v. Commercial Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an insured was sophisticated where he “had contracted with a number of insurance companies in the past [and] held a number of different disability policies”
• holding that a plaintiff waived an argument known to him at the time he filed his response in opposition to summary judgment by failing to raise it in his response brief
• holding waiver barred plaintiff from presenting issue on appeal where plaintiff did not raise that same issue before the district court
• insurance policy exceptions to liability must be expressed in unequivocal language so that it is reasonable to assume that the insured understood and accepted the limitations
• insured “had contracted with a number of insurance companies in the past, held a number of different disability policies, and sought professional assistance from his attorney in giving no tice to his disability insurers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).