Terry v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• employer entitled to receive compensation paid from amount employee receives from person who has legal liability to pay damages
• “the language of section 5(b) of the Act that refers to a legal liability to pay damages refers to liability in tort, not contractual liability under an underinsured motorist policy”
• employer entitled to receive compensation paid from amount employee receives from person who has legal liability to pay damages
• it is the function and duty of the reviewing court to construe the contract and not make a new contract under the guise of construction.
• “It is the function and duty of the reviewing court to construe the contract and not to make a new contract under the guise of construction.”
• “the language of section 5(b) of the Act that refers to a legal liability to pay damages refers to liability in tort, not contractual liability under an underinsured motorist policy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).