Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Dotts

How courts have described this case

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• finding no “accident” where the insured delivered a fatal backhanded blow to another man, even though the insured claimed to have intended no harm
• finding that Zinn is undisturbed by Johnson
• insured deliberately slapped a person not intending to hurt him, but the person died. Held: not an accident, but a result of a deliberate act even though consequence unexpected.
• parties agreed that backhanded slap to face was a \deliberate act\
• death caused by deliberate slap not an accident
• death caused by deliberate slap not an accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).