Ryan v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• establishing that when interpreting insurance contracts, the court must ascertain the intentions of the parties “by looking to the insurance contract as a whole”
• looking at the policy as a whole and considering the “ordinary and legal meaning of the words employed” in order to ascertain the intended allocation of coverage and costs
• “If the terms of the contract are plain and unambiguous, the contract must, be enforced as written, so long as it is within the prescribed bounds of the law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).