Allstate Ins. Co. v. Schmitt

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a fact established by a criminal judgment was to be given conclusive effect under collateral estoppel doctrine
• holding exclusion in homeowner's policy for \`intentional or criminal acts'\ applied to unintended result of criminally reckless conduct and did not offend public policy
• stating that the “words ‘criminal act’ are not modified by any descriptive culpability requirement”
• declining to interpret term in insurance policy that would render term redundant
• defining recklessness under New Jersey law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).