Hawkeye-Security Insurance v. Gilbert

How courts have described this case

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• holding that injuries from an assault were unrelated to the ownership, maintenance or use of the vehicle because the insured’s acts of leaving the car and assaulting a bicyclist were independent acts
• holding that causal connection must be more than incidental or fortuitous
• holding that causal connection must be more than incidental or fortuitous
• “It is not enough to say that ‘but for’ the use of the automobile, the injury would not have occurred.”
• motorist’s use of his automobile as a barricade to block a bicyclist’s avenue of movement was not a use reasonably related to the car’s inherent nature as a vehicle
• motorist's use of his automobile as a barricade to block a bicyclist's avenue of movement was not a use reasonably related to the car's inherent nature as a vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).