Westfield Insurance v. Galatis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that only employees acting within the scope of their employment are covered when a policy lists a corporation as a named insured
• instructing that a court look only at the writing itself to determine the intent of the parties when language of the contract is clear
• overruling Ezawa v. Yasuda Fire & Marine Ins. Co. of Am., 86 Ohio St.3d 557, 715 N.E.2d 1142 (1999)
• overruling Ezawa v. Yasuda Fire & Marine Ins. Co. of Am., 715 N.E.2d 1142 (Ohio 1999)
• applying the rule only when the parties have unequal bargaining power
• the provision in a policy describing insureds to include family members is simply inappo-site when the policyholder is a corporation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).