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· 12/10/1987

Commercial Union Insurance v. Superior Court

Citations

  • 196 Cal. App. 3d 1205
  • 242 Cal. Rptr. 454
  • 1987 Cal. App. LEXIS 2412

How courts have described this case

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

  • trial court erred in applying term “ ‘accident’ to the consequences of the act rather than to the happening of the act itself”
  • \accident\ refers to insured's general intent to act, not intent to cause harm
  • “accident” refers to insured’s general intent to act, not intent to cause harm
  • where intentional acts are not “accidents”
  • intentional termination not an accident
  • intentional termination not an accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Merrill

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