Reames v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the insured could not “demonstrate a reasonable potential that [the insured] would face a □ ‘claim’ on ‘suit’ for damages resulting from an assault and battery” where complaint only “alleg[ed] causes of action for malicious prosecution and abuse of process”
• where complaint alleged malicious prosecution and abuse of process, facts could not be used to require a defense for assault and battery, which had not been alleged
• analysis concerning an insurer’s duty to defend on the ground that allegations in a tort action potentially bring the tort claim within policy coverage is governed “solely by evaluating the causes of action actually alleged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).