Mailhot v. Travelers Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• describing the maxim as “at most only a fallible aid to decision”
• discussing interpretation and application of Massachusetts “no fault” insurance statutory scheme
• where strict, literal interpretation of statute “is seen ... to lead to an awkward and even intolerable result, [it will be] abandoned for a more liberal or more encompassing approach”
• statutory reference to exclusion of PIP wage benefits for person covered under Massachusetts worker’s compensation law also expresses Legislative intent to exclude such benefits for person covered by federal worker’s compensation law
• where strict, literal interpretation of workers’ compensation statute in accord with usually applicable rule of statutory interpretation “is seen ... to lead to an awkward and even intolerable result, [it will be] abandoned for a more liberal or more encompassing approach”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).