Spears v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that reasonable-expectations doctrine “evolved as an interpretive tool to aid courts in discerning the intention of the parties . . . when the policy language is ambiguous” (citation omitted)
• stating that under reasonable-expectations doctrine, “the meaning of the language is not what the drafter intended it to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would have understood it to mean”
• “[I]f an insurer desires to limit its liability under a policy, it must employ language that clearly and distinctly reveals its stated purpose.”
• Deposition of Jack Bailey at 38-40, 129
• Deposition of Jack Bailey at 38-40, 129
• Deposition of Art Wilson at 66

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).