State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Pacific Rent-All, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, “where the party seeking relief was not mistaken but consciously ignored the fact that he or she had limited knowledge of the facts, he or she effectively bears the risk of that mistake” (citations omitted)
• explaining that auto insurers do not act in bad faith when they deny payment based on \an open question of law.\
• explaining that auto insurers do not act in bad faith when they deny payment based on “an open question of law.”
• noting that the parties’ disagreement as to the meaning of a contract does not render it ambiguous
• noting that the parties’ disagreement as to the meaning of a contract does not render it ambiguous
• noting that the parties' disagreement as to the meaning of a contract does not render it ambiguous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).