Louisiana Alligator Wholesale, Inc. v. Prairie Cajun Seafood Wholesale Distributors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that phrase ‘‘ ‘because of bodily injury’ ’’ in professional liability insurance policy was ambiguous with respect to whether coverage extended to defendant’s loss of consortium claim predi- cated on husband’s bodily injury
• defining ‘‘because of’’ as ‘‘[o]n account of; by reason of’’ or ‘‘[f]or the reason that; since’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• defining ‘‘because of’’ as ‘‘[o]n account of; by reason of’’ or ‘‘[f]or the reason that; since’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Indeed, our interpretation of ambiguous policy language in favor of coverage under the doctrine of contra proferentem has become near axiomatic in insurance coverage disputes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).