Scottish Guarantee Insurance Company, Limited v. Dennis B. Dwyer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that allegations of “negligent trespass to property constitute a ‘wrongful entry’ ”
• providing coverage for the “[wrongful entry into, or eviction of a person from, a room, dwelling or premises that the person occupies,” but not qualifying that the action be by or on behalf of an owner, landlord, or lessor
• “We think a reasonable person in the position of Dwyer [the insured] would have understood the term ‘wrongful entry’ in Coverage B to include such an unintentional trespass.”
• allegations of negligent trespass trigger personal injury coverage as “wrongful entry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).