West Bend Mutual Insurance Co v. Procaccio Painting & Drywall C

How courts have described this case

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

• “Using equitable estoppel to admit evidence of a separate contemporaneous oral agreement would circumvent the basic purpose of the parol-evidence rule.”
• applying Illi‐ nois law and refusing to ignore contract’s plain meaning: the “sophisticated contract partner[] [] easily could have included the terms” it wanted to read into the contract
• applying Illi‐ nois law and refusing to ignore contract’s plain meaning: the “sophisticated contract partner[] [] easily could have included the terms” it wanted to read into the contract
• discussing section 143.17a of the Insurance Code in the context of workers’ compensation insurance
• “[Laches] has two elements: ‘lack of due diligence by the party asserting the claim and prejudice to the opposing party.’”
• “parol evidence may not be used to explain the writing or to introduce terms that contradict the written agreement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).