Butler v. Behaeghe

How courts have described this case

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

• exclusion for intentional conduct applies whenever some injury is intended, even though the injury that actually results differs in character or degree from the injury actually intended
• exclusionary clause applies “if the insured acts with the intent or expectation that bodily injury will result even though the bodily injury that does result is different either in character or magnitude from the injury that was intended”
• exclusionary clause applies \if the insured acts with the intent or expectation that bodily injury will result even though the bodily injury that does result is different either in character or magnitude from the injury that was intended\
• “A defendant may assert the rock was accidentally released or was not aimed at the victim, but he will not be heard to say he intended to throw the rock softly.”
• such a standard “logically untenable and unsupported by recent authority”
• interpreting phrase “bodily injury intended or expected”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).