Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance v. Overstreet

How courts have described this case

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• holding that intentional sexual assault did not constitute an “occurrence” covered by a homeowners policy
• mere use of the word negligence does not compel a court to find that a claim was based on an \occurrence\ under Virginia law
• use of the word “negligence” does not compel a court to find that a claim was an “occurrence” under Virginia law
• “[I]t is no defense to a claim that notice was untimely to say that the insured subjectively did not understand his policy might be implicated.”
• “There is simply nothing in these factual allegations that might plausibly be construed to mean that the injuries to Jane Doe caused by Joel Overstreet were the result of an ‘accident’ or were not intended. One does not accidentally or negligently sexually molest another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).