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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire Insurance.

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1 Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire Insurance Anchor
pa · 1983
green “in light of the manifest inequality of bargaining power between an insurance company and a purchaser of insurance, a court may on occasion be justified in deviating from the plain language of a contract of insurance.” 8
2 Tonkovic v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
pa · 1987
green “an individual applies and prepays for specific insurance coverage, the insurer may not unilaterally change the coverage provided without an affirmative showing that the insured was notified of, and understood, the change, regardless of whether the insured read the policy.” 4
3 Tonkovic v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
pa · 1987
green “we hold that where, as here, an individual applies and prepays for specific insurance coverage, the insurer may not unilaterally change the coverage provided without an affirmative showing that the insured was notified of, and understood, the change, regardless of whether the in…” 4

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