Pomerance v. Berkshire Life Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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

• avoiding construction of the term “substantial” in an insurance contract that would render it interchangeable with the term “material” used in the same contract
• avoiding construction of the term “substantial” in an insurance contract that 16 would render it interchangeable with the term “material” used in the same contract
• “[A] court should, if possible, construe a contract so as not to render any of its provisions meaningless.” (quotation omitted)
• “[A] court should, if possible, construe a contract so as not to render any of its provisions meaningless.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).