Insurance – Intentional Injury – Self-Defense Exception

By Deborah Elkins
Published: April 21, 2010

Tags: Insurance, Justice Harry L. Carrico, Supreme Court of Virginia

An insurer that wrote an umbrella policy has a duty to defend its insured in a tort action for assault and battery because the facts developed in depositions could fit within a policy exception allowing coverage for intentional injury caused by an insured “trying to protect person or property,” the Supreme Court of Virginia holds. The ...

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