Nelson v. Oregon Insurance Guaranty Ass'n

Because the majority misconstrues the nature of this case and then misapplies the law, I dissent.

The only issue that the trial court decided was that a difference existed between a deletion of a car from a policy and a termination of coverage. The trial court concluded that that difference precluded the application of the cancellation statute to this case. Whether there is a legal difference for purposes of former ORS 743.900(4) between a deletion of a car from a policy and a termination of coverage is not discernible from the statute. When statutory language lends itself to more than one…