West Bend Mutual Insurance v. Salemi

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “any insured” language could reasonably be interpreted as denying coverage only to the culpable party
• holding that \any insured\ language could reasonably be interpreted as denying coverage only to the culpable party
• employing similar rationale to protect seller of real estate who retained interest in property destroyed by buyer’s arson
• innocent co-insured not barred from recovery in the absence of contractual language which clearly expressed that intention
• where the language of the policy indicated that the defendant and the insurer had an independent contractual relationship, the defendant could recover, although the named insured was allegedly involved in arson that damaged the insured property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).