Michno v. Cook County Sheriff's Office

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a term ambiguous on its .own became unambiguous in context
• noting that the policyholder cannot be said to have had an expectation not clear from the contract
• stating that courts must read contracts as a whole and give harmonious effect to the contract whenever possible
• confirming that “[w]ell-settled principles of contract interpretation require one to first look to a contract’s plain language.”
• stating that courts must read contracts as a whole and give harmonious effect to the contract whenever possible
• explaining that underinsured-motorist coverage is meant to “supplement insurance proceeds received by the insured from the tortfeasor had the tortfeasor not been underinsured”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).