Stein v. Massachusetts Bay Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evi dence establishing lack of criminal intent “does not necessarily demonstrate, in a civil case, that the act is not intentional”
• where the asserted act of self-defense involved the use of deadly force by the insured
• where the asserted act of self-defense involved the use of deadly force by the insured
• self-defense claim “may raise the criminal defense of justification for an intentionally caused injury, [but] it does not vitiate the actual intent to cause the injury”
• provision in policy excluding coverage for bodily injury which is expected or intended by insured applies where insured knowingly shoots another, even if shooting is in self defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).