United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Shelly Funeral Home, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding injuries resulting from an insured’s negligent supervision of an employee constituted an occurrence because the insured did not know harmful consequences would flow from its own acts or omissions
• finding that, within the context of an insurance policy, “[t]he term ‘occurrence’ is defined to mean ‘an accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to substantially the same general harmful conditions.’ ”
• listing cases in which “other courts faced with similar facts and the identical ‘occurrence’ and intentional act provisions before us have found coverage for negligent hiring and supervision”
• rejecting the argument that “the standpoint of the insured is irrelevant” in determining whether an accident constituting an occurrence triggering CGL coverage took place
• rejecting the argument that “the standpoint of .the insured is irrelevant” in determining whether an accident constituting an occurrence triggering CGL coverage took place
• stating negligent investigation or evaluation of claim will not, standing alone, establish bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).