Insurance Department v. St. Paul Fire & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “Language in one part of the statute must be interpreted in light of the legislature’s intent as found in the whole statute.”
• \[U]ncertainties or ambiguities in remedial statutes should be resolved in favor of a liberal interpretation .... \
• “The cardinal rale of statutory interpretation is to ascertain the legislature’s purpose in enacting a statute and then construe the statute to effect that purpose, avoiding interpretations that do not ‘square with common sense and sound reasoning.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).