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Tag Archives: Ambiguous
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Individualized Arbitration Where Agreement Is Ambiguous on Issue of Class Arbitration
In a 2010 decision, Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. Animalfeeds International Corp., the United States Supreme Court held that parties may not be compelled to submit to class arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) unless there is a contractual basis … Continue reading
Posted in Employment and Labour Law
Tagged Agreement, Ambiguous, Arbitration, class, Court, Individualized, issue, Supreme, U.S., Upholds
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Ambiguous Drafting can Cause Expensive Litigation
What’s the meaning of a sentence in a Trust or a Will? once the ink is dry on the paper, the document is expected to “speak for itself” without the need to hunt for external evidence to understand the meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Administrative law
Tagged Ambiguous, Cause, Drafting, Expensive, Litigation
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New York Appellate Court Permits Use of Extrinsic Facts to “Clarify Ambiguous Pleadings” and Establish the Applicability of a Policy’s Auto Exclusion
On October 23, 2018, our Global Insurance Services group hosted an interactive webinar discussing states’ varying interpretations of what is considered “loading and unloading” in the context of a liability policy’s “Aircraft, Auto or Watercraft” exclusion. During that presentation, we … Continue reading
Ambiguous limits of indemnity (UK)
Where a policy schedule and the wording of the policy were not on the face of it consistent, the court considered the combined effect of the limit for a single claim and a number of linked claims and held that … Continue reading