National Union Fire Insurance v. Reno's Executive Air, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• directing that the Court must read the contract to give effect to all 16 || of its provisions
• holding that ambiguities “must be construed against the insurer.”
• noting that ambiguous insurance policy provisions are interpreted in favor of coverage
• “A court must look to the entire contract of insurance for a true understanding of what risks are assumed by the insurer and what risks are excluded.”
• “A court must look to the entire contract of insurance for a true understanding of what risks are assumed by the insurer and what risks are excluded.”
• “Clauses providing coverage are 19 broadly interpreted so as to afford the greatest possible coverage to the insured, [and] clauses 20 excluding coverage are interpreted narrowly against the insurer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).