Colorado Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Snowbarger

How courts have described this case

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

• actually liability of insured is not the criterion for the insurance company's obligation to defend
• “The actual liability of the insured to the claimant [in the underlying action] is not the criterion which places upon the insurance company the obligation to defend.”
• no duty to defend where damages claimed as a result of negligence stemmed directly from a sexual assault that fell within the intentional acts exclusion of the policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).