St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an endorsement prevails where it conflicts with the body of the policy
• ‘‘[A] court should read the policy provisions to avoid ambiguities, if possible, and not torture the language to create them.”
• “If there is a conflict between the terms of the endorsement and those in the body of the main policy, then the endorsement prevails, particularly when it favors the insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).