Lewis v. Allstate Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “when the words of an insurance policy are plain and unambiguous, the court will afford them their plain, ordinary meaning and will apply them as written”
• stating, \[W]e make no judgment regarding the public policy of providing insurance coverage in cases where intentional conduct causes unintended results.\
• either insurance company or insureds may bring a declaratory action to resolve coverage question prior to trial
• When addressing whether an intentional acts exclusion precludes coverage, “[i]n Mississippi, ‘[an] act is intentional if the actor desires to cause the consequences of his act, or believes that the consequences are substantially certain to result from it.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).