Western National Assurance Co. v. Hecker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the insured’s deliberate act of intercourse with another was not an accident after finding that the insured specifically intended the act
• finding that, where insured sexually 25 assaulted individual and claimed he had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, the act of 26 intercourse was not a covered “occurrence” or “accident” under the applicable policy
• “The policy does not define ‘accident.’ Therefore, the term must be given its popular and 17 ordinary meaning.”
• injury caused by deliberate act of forcible sexual intercourse not an accident
• injury caused by deliberate act of forcible sexual intercourse not an accident
• reviewing declaratory judgment hearing based on pleadings and depositions

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