Topic: an insurance policy is a contract between the parties and s… · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 78 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 Cadwallader v. Allstate Ins. Co..

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1 Cadwallader v. Allstate Ins. Co. Anchor
la · 2003
green “an insurance policy is a contract between the parties and should be construed by using the general rules of interpretation of contracts set forth in the louisiana civil code.” 31
2 Cadwallader v. Allstate Ins. Co.
la · 2003
green “words and phrases used in an insurance policy are to be construed using their plain, ordinary and generally prevailing meaning, unless the words have acquired a technical meaning.” 22
3 Cadwallader v. Allstate Ins. Co.
la · 2003
green “if the policy wording at issue is clear and unambiguously expresses the parties' intent, the insurance contract must be enforced as written.” 20
4 Louisiana Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.
la · 1994
green “a provision susceptible of different meanings must be interpreted with a meaning that renders it effective and not with one that renders it ineffective.” 5

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