Vermont Mutual Insurance v. Walukiewicz

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the term ‘accident,’ and, hence, the term ‘occurrence,’ encompasses actions taken by an insured in legitimate self-defense”
• “[I]t seems equally plausible to characterize actions taken in self-defense as, by their very nature, instinctive or reactive and, accordingly, unplanned and unintentional.” (citing State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Poomaihealani, 667 F. Supp. 705, 708 (D. Haw. 1987))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).