Perez-Encinas v. Amerus Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• “Language in a contract must be interpreted as a whole, and in the circumstances of the case”
• “While insurance contracts may have special attributes, they are nevertheless contracts to which the ordinary rules of contract interpretation apply.”
• “[i]f the ‘reasonable expectations’ approach does not resolve the ambiguity, the ambiguity is to be interpreted against the drafter [], since that party caused the ambiguities to exist”
• “In searching for a plain meaning, a court is to interpret the language of an agreement in its ‘ordinary and popular sense, unless used by the parties in a technical sense’”
• “intent is determined solely from the written provisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).