Allstate Insurance v. Sowers

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a conviction for resisting arrest triggered a criminal acts exclusion despite a lack of intent to injure a police officer
• holding criminal acts exclusion in homeowner’s policy applicable where insured unintentionally injured police officer while unlawfully resisting arrest
• holding criminal acts exclusion in homeowner's policy applicable where insured unintentionally injured police officer while unlawfully resisting arrest
• rejecting ambiguity argument because it ignores the relevant language of the exclusion
• insured's resisting arrest fit the criminal acts exclusion despite insured's lack of intent to injure the officer
• insured’s resisting arrest fit the criminal acts exclusion despite insured’s lack of intent to injure the officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).