Merchants Mutual Insurance v. City of Concord

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• applying exception where city failed to provide medical or psychiatric care to detainee
• suicidal death of a county jail inmate was, from the city's standpoint, an accident and within the terms of the insurance policy
• actions of city and county officials in failing to obtain psychiatric treatment for prisoner showing signs of mental illness came within exclusion of liability for professional services and were not covered by the insurance policies at issue
• failure of city employees to convey information to the court arraigning the decedent of his prior behavior while being detained in city jail and that he was emotionally upset and unable to control himself were not actions of a professional nature and were covered under the policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).