Making a Mess of Ambiguity: Lessons from the Third Circuit's Opinion in Meyer v. CUNA Mutual Insurance Society

A complex source of uncertainty in contract language is ambiguity associated with use of plural nouns and the words and, or, every, each, and any—what this author refers to as “ambiguity of the part versus the whole.”

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