Village Inn Apartments v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that if insurance “policy terms are clear and unambiguous,” the court must “interpret those terms in accordance with their plain and ordinary meaning, as they would be understood by the average, reasonable purchaser of insurance” (quotations and citations omitted)
• providing that if insurance “policy terms are clear and unambiguous,” the court must “interpret those terms in accordance with their plain and ordinary meaning, as they would be understood by the average, reasonable purchaser of insurance” (quotations and citations omitted)
• using a dictionary definition to determine the common definition of an insurance policy term
• “A policy term is not ambiguous ... merely because one party assigns a different meaning to it in accordance with his or her own interests.”
• \A policy term is not ambiguous ... merely because one party assigns a different meaning to it in accordance with his or her own interests.\
• A contract term \is not ambiguous ... merely because one party assigns a different meaning to it in accordance with his or her own interests.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).