State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Martin

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• hearing appeal that had been filed directly from declaratory judgment order entered following submission of case on stipulated facts
• accepting that insured’s acts were criminal but analyzing whether they were intentional
• insured told police that he had aimed his truck at his wife but that he hoped she was all right
• willful and malicious assault, being intentional tort, is not “accident” and not covered by liability policy agreeing to indemnify against damage from accident
• ‘‘a person should not be indemnified by insurance against the conse- quences of his [wilful], criminal assault’’ (internal quota- tion marks omitted)
• court found intoxicated insured who mounted the lawn with his truck and struck his wife before driving his truck into the wall of his wife's house had the subjective intent to harm,

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).