Zimmerman v. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when terms have a specialized meaning, “we assume that the leg- islature used the term consistently with that specialized meaning”
• when a term has acquired a specialized meaning in a particular industry or profession, the court assumes that the legislature used the term consistently with that specialized meaning
• if a term has “acquired a spe- cialized meaning in a particular industry or profession, * * * we assume that the legislature used the term consistently with that specialized meaning”
• construing “proof of loss” as specialized term in insurance industry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).