When it comes to whether an insurance carrier has to provide coverage for a man injured during a murder-suicide, “context is everything,” an attorney representing Erie Insurance told the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Allan Molotsky of Fowler Hirtzel told the justices Thursday, during the oral argument session in Erie Insurance Exchange v. Moore, that they needed to view the deadly encounter as a whole in order to determine whether the non-fatal shooting of a third party during the incident should be viewed as an “occurrence” under the insurance policy, triggering the carrier’s duty to defend.