How have courts interpreted ambiguous phrases in the context of a claim?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Krause v. Western Heritage Insuranc Co., G041405, No. 07CC00537 (Cal. App. 2010):

that are part of the working vocabulary of the average layperson." (Haynes v. Farmers Ins. Exchange (2004) 32 Cal.4th 1198, 1204.) Our task is confined to asking "whether the particular phrase is ambiguous in 'the context of this policy and the circumstances of this case.'" (Jordan v. Allstate Ins. Co. (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th 1206, 1214.)

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