Schmitz v. Great American Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that where the policy used the term “ride” as a verb, the court would look to dictionary definitions of its verb form to determine whether it was ambiguous
• holding refusal to defend or to provide coverage unjustified where claim was within policy
• disclaiming an insurer’s attempts to have “ ‘two bites of the apple’ — once when the trial court determines liability and damages and once when the equitable garnishment court determines reasonableness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).