State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Tippett

How courts have described this case

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

• finding an attempt to plead negligent sexual assault cannot avoid the intentional act exclusion for conduct that is clearly intentional
• “[W]ording alone in a pleading does not create a duty to defend, regardless of its artfulness.”
• \The allegations...must state a cause of action that seeks recovery for the type of damages covered by the insurance policy.\
• “[T]he insurer has a duty to defend even if the facts alleged are false or the legal theories unsound.”
• “if the pleadings show the applicability of a policy exclusion, the insurer has no duty to defend.”
• “The trial court is restrict; ed to the allegations set forth in the complaint, regardless of what the insured or others say actually happened.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).