Interpreting Unilateral Contracts in the Insurance Industry

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Catherine Stark and Deanne Wood
Description :
In this article we look at how the changes to the rules relating to contractual interpretation have impacted on the way in which unclear or uncertain terms of an insurance policy might be interpreted by our courts. Interpreting interpretation The traditional approach to interpretation of a contract was to ascertain the common intention of the parties. The provision was to be given its ordinary grammatical meaning, unless this would result in some absurdity or inconsistency with the remainder of the contract.
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