Republic Insurance v. Feidler

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a voluntarily intoxicated insured may lack the mental capacity to form the intent required to invoke a policy exclusion for intentional acts of the insured
• “When an insured assigns his right to sue his insurer under a liability policy, the assignee takes only those rights that the defendant had.”
• “It has been stated that, when construing an exclusionary term in an insurance contract, the courts must examine the purpose of the exclusion, the public policy considerations involved, and the transaction as a whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).