Amy Elizabeth Stewart, managing shareholder at Amy Stewart PC, along with Dena DeNooyer Stroh, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Murchison Oil and Gas, co-chaired the 27th Annual Attorneys Serving the Community Luncheon at the Hilton Anatole on June 14, 2013. This year’s fundraising efforts benefited Hope’s Door, a shelter and counseling center designed to break the cycle of domestic violence.
Attorneys Serving the Community (ASC) is a thriving organization of talented female ...
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In jurisdictions across the country, courts and practitioners alike grapple with issues of policy interpretation when the litigants disagree about the meaning of an insurance contract.
Courts typically apply generally applicable rules of contract interpretation in the insurance context. When the parties advance different policy interpretations in the context of a coverage dispute, issues arise. If the court agrees that competing interpretations are both reasonable, the policy is ambiguous as a matter of law. Then what?
The practical challenge for litigants and their counsel in any jurisdiction is determining how the court will approach conflicting interpretations
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