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Nightclub Policy Assault Exclusion Requires Perpetrator’s Intent in Order to Negate Liability Coverage for Gunshot Injury

Certain Lloyd’s underwriters lost their unopposed coverage motion for summary judgment based on an assault and battery policy exclusion, because a bar patron injured by gunfire did not allege she was shot as a result of a dispute, threat or …

$2.7M Award for Deadly Fight Struck Down

The Tennessee Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that said an insurance company must pay $2.7 million in damages for a bar fight in Hendersonville that left one man dead and injured another. The state’s highest court on Wednesday said …