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· 6/19/1991

Kalell v. Mutual Fire & Automobile Insurance Co.

Citations

  • 471 N.W.2d 865
  • 1991 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 215
  • 1991 WL 108321

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that coverage may lie where injury arose from using pick-up truck to pull down tree limb
  • finding that coverage may lie where injury arose from using pick-up truck to pull down tree limb
  • holding that a homeowners policy excluding coverage for any occurrence arising out of the use of a motor vehicle must be construed strictly against the insurer to mean that coverage was barred only if the vehicle was the sole proximate cause of the damage or injury
  • holding that a homeowners policy excluding coverage for any occurrence arising out of the use of a motor vehicle must be construed strictly against the insurer to mean that coverage was barred only if the vehicle was the sole proximate cause of the damage or injury
  • considering a homeowner’s policy and the meaning of “arising out of” language in exclusion clause
  • when two independent acts of negligence alleged, one vehicular and one nonvehieular, coverage still available under homeowner’s policy unless vehicle-related negligence is sole proximate cause of injury

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Judges: Larson, McGIVERIN, Neuman, Schultz, Snell

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