Viking Pump, Inc. v. Century Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, for insurance contracts, “Delaware courts have applied the law of the jurisdiction that bears the most significant relationship to the insurance coverage as a whole”
• interpreting non-cumulation provision that read, in part, “[i]f the same occurrence gives rise to personal injury, property damage or advertising injury or damage which occurs partly before and partly within any annual period of this policy .... ”
• extrinsic evidence of course of performance or conduct under contract shows the parties’ intent
• the course of performance in which a party acquiesced without objection is given great weight in interpreting agreement
• the course of performance in which a party acquiesced without objection is given great weight in interpreting agreement
• “Fortunately, [Delaware and New York] apply the same general principles of contract interpretation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).