Cavalier Manufacturing Co. v. Employers Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The phenomenon of identical words meaning different things, even in a single document, such as an insurance contract or statute, let alone in two separate documents, is neither unique to the case at bar nor to the elasticity and inherent limitations of the English language.”
• “The issue on appeal is a narrow one. We must determine whether an intentional tort, as that term is defined in the WDCA [Workers’ Disability Compensation Act], is identical to ‘bodily injury intentionally caused,’ as that term is defined in the insurance contract. We hold that it is not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).