Winters v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that implicit in the term “accidental bodily injuries” is the concept that the injuries arose from a discrete event
• holding that a policy covered only injury resulting from accidental acts where it indicated that insurance was provided against losses that “result ... from bodily injury caused by accident”
• interpreting policy language that provided coverage for “bodily injury caused by accident”
• policy language insuring against losses resulting from “bodily injury caused by accident” insured against injury by accidental means
• “[w]here an unusual or unexpected result occurs, by reason of the doing of an intentional act, with no mischance, slip, or mishap occurring in doing the act itself, the ensuing injury or death is not caused by accidental means”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).