Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Interstate 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.

• commenting that we have “consulted Webster’s Dictionary, Random House Dictionary, or, less often, Black’s Law Dictionary” for this purpose
• “Construction of the contract by the parties to it before the controversy arises is an important aid to interpretation of uncertain terms”
• “Construction of the contract by the parties to it before the controversy arises is an important aid to interpretation of uncertain terms”
• if “each claim” limit is in terms of bodily injury sustained by any one person, majority of cases apply “only one liability limit to the bodily injury of the child and the derivative claim of the parent combined”
• contracts construed to effectuate the intent of the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).