USAA Property & Casualty Insurance v. Rowland

How courts have described this case

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

• holding when a term is not defined in an insurance policy, the court should define the term according to the usual understanding of the term’s significance to the normal person
• absent prescribed definition in policy, “accident” must be defined according to ordinary and usual understanding
• “In the absence of a prescribed definition in the policy, the term should be defined according to the ordinary and usual understanding of the term’s significance to the ordinary person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).