Roe v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company

How courts have described this case

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

• extending inference as a matter of law to nonconsensual sexual acts with a 20-year-old adult
• contrasting intent to commit an act with intent to inflict bodily injury
• contrasting intent to commit an act with intent to inflict bodily injury
• rejecting argument that insurance coverage was warranted because insured perpetrator sexually molested child due to obsessive compulsion, without intent to injure child, as “intentional child molestation carries with it a presumption of intent to inflict injury”
• “Child molestation and the injury caused by it are so closely tied as to be virtually inseparable”
• injuries resulting from intentional act of molestation were expected or intended as a matter of law despite insured’s argument that he did not intend the injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).