State v. Glens Falls Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• construing a policy covering damages neither expected nor intended, the court held that an insured sheriff was entitled to coverage with respect to a wrongful levy claim where the sheriff had a mistaken belief that he was authorized to levy on the property he seized
• construing a policy covering damages neither expected nor intended, the court held that an insured sheriff was entitled to coverage with respect to a wrongful levy claim where the sheriff had a mistaken belief that he was authorized to levy on the property he seized
• seizure of mobile home was an occurrence because no harm was intended by the insured
• punitive damages covered where insurer agreed to pay “all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages”
• insured had “reasonable expectation” that broad policy language of “all sums” meant “all sums” including punitive damages
• insurance industry developed standard occurrence-based liability policy which included definition of occurrence as in NUFI

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).