State Auto Mut. Ins. Co. v. Scroggins

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that pulling a chair out from under another person constitutes an expected or intentional act excludable from coverage
• where insured intentionally pulled the chair out from under the injured party as he sat down, some form of bodily injury must have been expected
• “The fact that an unintended serious injury resulted from the intended fall is irrelevant to the issue of coverage”
• where insured intentionally pulled the chair out from under the injured party as he sat down, some form of bodily injury must have been expected
• practical joke of pulling a chair out from under a plaintiff is intentional conduct and not an accident for insurance purposes; the fact that unintended serious injury resulted from the intended fall is irrelevant to the issue of coverage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).