- Title Pages
- FIGHTING OVER WORDS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Business Contract Disputes
- CHAPTER 1 “Or” in a Group Insurance Policy
- CHAPTER 2 Exclusive Marketing Services
- CHAPTER 3 Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement
- CHAPTER 4 Interpreting State Code
- PART II Deceptive Trade Practices
- CHAPTER 5 Competing Conveying System Advertisements
- CHAPTER 6 Nicotine Patch Advertisements
- CHAPTER 7 Certificates of Deposit Advertisements
- PART III Product Liability
- CHAPTER 8 Brain Damage from a Cleaning Product
- CHAPTER 9 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- CHAPTER 10 Toxic Shock Syndrome from Tampons
- CHAPTER 11 Toxic Gas in the Cockpit
- PART IV Copyright Infringement
- CHAPTER 12 A Book Is Turned into a Pamphlet
- PART V Discrimination
- CHAPTER 13 Racial Steering in Real Estate
- CHAPTER 14 Age Discrimination
- CHAPTER 15 Retaliatory Termination Discrimination
- PART VI Trademarks
- CHAPTER 16 Ownership of the Words “Wood Roasted”
- CHAPTER 17 Battle over Antifreeze
- PART VII Procurement Fraud
- CHAPTER 18 False Representation in a Government Contract
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- Index
“Or” in a Group Insurance Policy
“Or” in a Group Insurance Policy
Peter Koehn v. Continental Casualty Company
- Chapter:
- (p.15) CHAPTER 1 “Or” in a Group Insurance Policy
- Source:
- Fighting over Words
- Author(s):
Roger W. Shuy (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter describes the case of a university professor who lost vision in one eye after a surgical procedure. His insurance company refused payment based on its interpretation of the words in the exclusion section of the university's group insurance policy. Semantic, pragmatic, and discourse analyses show that the policy's use of “or” conveyed to the reader that this conjunction referred to two different things rather than one, favoring the policyholder, not the insurance company.
Keywords: semantic, pragmatic, discourse analysis, insurance policy
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- Title Pages
- FIGHTING OVER WORDS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I Business Contract Disputes
- CHAPTER 1 “Or” in a Group Insurance Policy
- CHAPTER 2 Exclusive Marketing Services
- CHAPTER 3 Conditions of a Key Employee Agreement
- CHAPTER 4 Interpreting State Code
- PART II Deceptive Trade Practices
- CHAPTER 5 Competing Conveying System Advertisements
- CHAPTER 6 Nicotine Patch Advertisements
- CHAPTER 7 Certificates of Deposit Advertisements
- PART III Product Liability
- CHAPTER 8 Brain Damage from a Cleaning Product
- CHAPTER 9 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- CHAPTER 10 Toxic Shock Syndrome from Tampons
- CHAPTER 11 Toxic Gas in the Cockpit
- PART IV Copyright Infringement
- CHAPTER 12 A Book Is Turned into a Pamphlet
- PART V Discrimination
- CHAPTER 13 Racial Steering in Real Estate
- CHAPTER 14 Age Discrimination
- CHAPTER 15 Retaliatory Termination Discrimination
- PART VI Trademarks
- CHAPTER 16 Ownership of the Words “Wood Roasted”
- CHAPTER 17 Battle over Antifreeze
- PART VII Procurement Fraud
- CHAPTER 18 False Representation in a Government Contract
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- Index