Rine v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• observing that, where insurer has failed to expressly exclude fines and penalties, court would not relieve insurer of obligation to pay compensatory surcharge that was arguably punitive in nature
• observing that, where insurer has failed to expressly exclude fines and penalties, court would not relieve insurer of obligation to pay compensatory surcharge that was arguably punitive in nature
• “Even assuming, without deciding that the claims are penal, we have held an insurance company liable for exemplary or punitive damages where fines and penalties are not expressly excluded by the policy language.”
• finding penalty and fines to be covered by general insurance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).