First American Title Insurance v. Raffone

How courts have described this case

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• criminal acts exclusion inapplicable where insured could not be convicted based on lack of capacity to form culpable intent
• an accident is “an event of unfortunate character that takes place without one’s foresight or expectation”
• “As with any other contract, the parties' intent is governed by what they said, not by what they intended to say but did not.”
• “[w]hen the words of an insurance contract are, without violence, susceptible of two [equally reasonable] inteipretations, that which will sustain the claim and cover the loss must, in preference, be adopted” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• when documents submitted in support of motion for summary judgment fail to establish absence of genuine issue of material fact, nonmoving party has no obligation to submit documents establishing existence of such issue
• when documents submitted in support of motion for summary judgment fail to establish absence of genuine issue of material fact, nonmoving party has no obligation to submit documents establishing exis- tence of such issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).