RELIANCE INS. CO. v. AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY


17 Mass. App. Ct. 218 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 645

RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY vs. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Neumeier (Philander S. Ratzkoff & Ellen S. Cooper with him) for the plaintiff.

Ann-Louise Levine for the defendant.

Present: GREANEY, KAPLAN, & KASS, JJ.


KASS, J.

What we have here is a controversy between insurance companies as to the meaning of two standard clauses in comprehensive automobile liability insurance policies: (1) the tractor-trailer exclusion and (2) the severability of interests clause.

Not surprisingly, the parties have, in their briefs and arguments, engaged in lusty word chopping, an exercise to which the language of the policies lends itself handsomely. We think that diagnosing the commercial...

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