Crystal D. Kilcher v. Continental Casualty Company

How courts have described this case

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• dishonest acts with similar methods and “modus operan-di” more likely to be part of a “series of related acts”
• acts done to different victims were unambiguously “logically … connected,” as defined in the insurance policy, where each victim shared common characteristics such that he or she “presented the same opportunity” to the perpetra- tor
• when construing broad \Interrelated Wrongful Acts\ provision, court states that variations in the specifics of the fraud perpetuated against various clients were immaterial \micro-distinguishing\ factors, particularly in light of the victims' allegations of similarity
• acts done to different victims were unambiguously “logically … connected,” as defined in the insurance policy, where each victim shared common characteristics such that he or she “presented the same opportunity” to the perpetra- tor
• “[A] court may consider several factors in concluding whether dishonest acts are part of a series of related acts, including whether the acts are connected by time, place, opportunity, pattern, and, most importantly, method or modus oper-andi.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).