Ideal Mutual Insurance Co. v. Winker

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that courts relying on reasoning in Restatement to deny preclusive effect to guilty pleas do not read Restatement closely
• requiring issues to be “identical” and “material and relevant” and “necessary and essential” in both proceedings
• precluding re-litigation of the circumstances surrounding an insured's guilty plea, including an affirmative defense
• “resulting from a criminal act” unambiguous in excluding coverage for first degree murder
• a validly entered and accepted guilty plea precludes relitigation of essential elements of the offense in a civil case
• a validly entered and accepted guilty plea precludes relitigation of essential elements of the offense in a civil case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).