Soliva v. Shand, Morahan & Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that provisions should not be taken out of context
• overruled on other grounds by National Mutual Insurance Co. v. McMahon & Sons, 177 W. Va. 734, 356 S.E.2d 488 (1987)
• “ ‘In ascertaining the intention of the parties to an insurance contract, the test is what a reasonable person in the insured’s position would have understood the words of the policy to mean.’” (citation omitted)
• “Language in an insurance policy should be given its plain, ordinary meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).