American Home Assurance Co. v. Cohen

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that denial of coverage for sexual misconduct that is attributable to medical malpractice violated public policy because it would discourage patients from reporting sexual misconduct
• observing that denial of coverage for sexual misconduct that is attributable to medical malpractice violated public policy because it would discourage patients from reporting sexual misconduct
• relying on Emerson to reject a public policy challenge and uphold a psychologist's professional liability insurance policy insofar as it limited liability coverage for the insured's sexual misconduct
• Washington Supreme Court answering public policy question on certification from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• relying on Emerson to reject a public policy challenge and uphold a psychologist’s professional liability insurance policy insofar as it limited liability coverage for the insured’s sexual misconduct
• finding no legislative evidence of public policy against exclusions from coverage for injuries to patients caused by psychologists’ sexual misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).