Matador Petroleum Corp. v. St Paul Surplus Lines Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• “When interpreting a contract, our primary concern is to ascertain and to give effect to the intentions of the parties as expressed in the instrument.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The endorsement’s use of the conjunction ‘and’ indicates that, to obtain coverage, the insured must satisfy the requirements of both the seven-day notice provision and the thirty-day reporting provision.” (emphasis added)
• court upholds 30-day notice provision in a commercial policy endorsement, stating that under the plain language of the endorsement, the insured “received what it bargained for…, with premiums presumably reduced to reflect the limited coverage….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).