“If contractual language is clear and explicit, it governs.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
How later courts described this case
- “If contractual language is clear and explicit, it governs.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- interpreting a nonstandard excess third party liability policy
- “ ‘damages’ has legally and traditionally always been understood as limited to money ordered by a court”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
WERDEGAR, J., Concurring.
I concur in the judgment under the compulsion of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London v. Superior Court (2001) 24 Cal.4th 945 [ 103 Cal.Rptr.2d 672 , 16 P.3d 94 ] and Foster-Gardner, Inc. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. (1998) 18 Cal.4th 857 [ 77 Cal.Rptr.2d 107 , 959 P.2d 265 ], decisions from which I dissented and which in my view deserve reconsideration.