Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Kammerer

Eric C. Tostrud, United States District Court Judge

This case is about insurance coverage for injuries from a dog bite. The answer to the coverage question depends on whether a term appearing in the relevant policy in bold text-"insured "-means the same thing or something different when it appears in the policy in plain text-"insured." Plaintiff Auto-Owners Insurance Company says the word unambiguously has the same meaning regardless of whether it appears in bold or plain text and that, as a result, there is no coverage for dog-bite injuries sustained by intervenor defendant J.M. J.M. says the…