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· 9/12/1978

Nielsen v. St. Paul Companies

Citations

  • 583 P.2d 545
  • 283 Or. 277
  • 1978 Ore. LEXIS 1068

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no intent to injure and thus no insurer liability in case involving repossession of property
  • policy covering “bodily injury or property damage neither expected nor intended from the standpoint of the Insured”
  • policy covering ‘bodily injury or property damage neither expected nor intended from the standpoint of the Insured’
  • “There are some intentional acts the nature of which is such that it must necessarily be concluded that there was an intention to injure.”
  • “[T]he acts must have been committed for the purpose of inflicting the injury and harm before either a policy provision excluding intentional harm applies or the public policy against insurability attaches.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Holman, Howell, Bryson, Lent

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