The Need for an Alternative Approach to
Severability for
However, the provisions allowing
severability of insurance should be removed as a final step.
8) Partly for this reason, the Court has stated that congressional intent is the primary focus of
severability and statutory-interdependence analysis.
The Court rejected the Florida Supreme Court's distinction between void and voidable contracts in refusing to apply Prima Paint's rule of
severability.
SEVERABILITY AS TO THE APPLICATION: This provides that if the signer of the application and/or any warranties made a material misstatement or misrepresentation which induced the carrier to issue the D&O policy, that individual's misstatement or misrepresentation will not void the coverage for all other insureds.
Supreme Court could take into account in evaluating the
severability of
Wine and bread are known from ancient times, and they both have travelled through the social
severability, political systems and cultural changes and seen the transformations of their meanings, yet they are still somehow appreciated as the essence of being alive.
62) The Court's federal arbitration jurisprudence imposes a
severability rule so that the existence of an arbitration clause--even in a fraudulent, illegal, or unconscionable bargain--leaves determinations of the bargain's validity for arbitration, not the courts.
The Supreme Court announced a week ago that it would review the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision and the
severability of this provision.
Additionally, the court will consider the issue raised by the NFIB and the states regarding the
severability of the individual mandate from the remainder of PPACA.
See, if the mandate--even by itself- is ruled unconstitutional, the law's lack of a
severability clause would invalidate the entire piece of legislation.
In another recent article, Kevin Walsh has recently dissented from the analysis of
severability that I have given in section III.
