Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Dichtl

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• holding that whether the insured’s mental capacity prevented her conduct from falling within an intentional conduct exclusion was a question of fact
• insured’s conduct of murdering her husband would not fall within the exclusion if she lacked the mental capacity necessary to form the intention to harm him or the expectation of his injury
• the insured killed her husband either intentionally or because she was insane
• insured found not guilty of homicide by reason of insanity
• insured found not guilty of homicide by reason of insanity
• the mental state of the reasonable-man actor is not determinative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).