Texas Farm Bureau Underwriters and Texas Farm Bureau Insurance v. Douglas Rasmussen and Kathy Rasmussen

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the argument that “employees’ statements created insurance coverage by estoppel” and noting that “[t]he Texas Supreme Court has long held, however, that the ‘doctrine of estoppel cannot be used to create insurance coverage when none exists by the terms of the policy.’”
• “[T]he payment of the insurance premium in accordance with the provisions of the insurance policy is generally a condition precedent to establish liability against the insurer.”
• “If, after applying the pertinent rules of construction, [an insurance] policy has a definite legal meaning, then it is unambiguous, and [courts] construe it as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).