Commentary and analysis on the
law of insurance coverage
Legalese Contaminates a High Court’s Coverage Opinion
Lawyers and judges often find it hard to remember that their professional worlds are steeped in jargon and legalese that the average layperson neither uses in everyday life nor understands. A majority of the New York Court of Appeals (New York’s highest court) recently succumbed to the belief that a technical legal definition of a phrase in an insurance policy necessarily equates with the everyday “ordinary” definition of the phrase. Read More
