Olin Corp. v. American Home Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under New York law, courts are to apply the general rules of contract interpretation
• concluding that prior insurance provision of excess insurance policies reduced insurer’s liability to the extent that a prior insurance policy at the same level of coverage indemnified for a loss that was also covered by insurer’s excess policies
• recognizing waiver reviewed for abuse of discretion
• recognizing waiver reviewed for abuse of discretion
• “Each policy also ‘follows form’ to lower-level excess policies, which means that it adopts their terms and conditions.”
• “Each policy also ‘follows form’ to lower-level excess policies, which means that it adopts their terms and conditions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).