United States Fire Insurance v. Capital Ford Truck Sales, 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 language in subrogation clause was unambiguous in granting preference to insurer
• when words in a contract are plain and obvious, they must be given their literal meaning
• “The test is not what the insurer intended its words to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would understand them to mean.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).