Totten v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to apply principle that exclusionary clauses are to be construed in favor of the insured where clause was unambiguous
• “We interpret the terms of an insurance policy according to what we perceive to be the understanding of the ordinary purchaser of insurance”
• “We interpret the terms of an insurance policy according to what we perceive to be the understanding of the ordinary purchaser of insurance.”
• use of the term “any aircraft” as opposed to simply “aircraft” was intended to give an insurance policys exclusion clause a broad meaning
• use of the term “any aircraft” as opposed to simply “aircraft” was intended to give an insurance policy’s exclusion clause a broad meaning
• “We interpret the terms of an insurance policy according to what we perceive to be the understanding of the common purchaser of insurance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).