Mattis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• summarizing Illinois’ law and commenting it remains consistent with other jurisdictions
• “latent defect” means defects inherent in the materials used, and does not include negligent design and construction
• settlement caused by placement of backfill material against basement wall not considered earth movement
• applying the ejusdem generis rule to an earth movement exclusion
• “earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudflow, earth sinking, rising or shifting”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).