Smyth v. USAA Property & Casualty Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that definition of “business” in primary policy as “trade, profession, or occupation” did not create an ambiguity, though “business” was defined in the umbrella policy as “trade, occupation, profession or business”
• “That this definition is not identical in the primary and excess policies does not create an ambiguity.”
• “That this definition is not identical in the primary and excess policies does not create an ambiguity.”
• interpretation of an insurance policy, like any other contract, is a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).