EMPLOYERS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY v. Pires

How courts have described this case

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• as a general proposition, the court applies the same rules when construing insurance policies as it does when construing contracts
• \[w]e will not depart from the literal language of the policy absent a finding that the policy is ambiguous\
• “The rule of contra proferentem is ... a rule of last resort and is applied only where other secondary rules of interpretation have failed to elucidate the contract’s meaning.”

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