California Court of Appeal

A homeowner's insurance policy that excluded coverage for "bodily injury" as a foreseeable result of insured's "intentional or criminal act" does not cover a claim where the insured pled guilty to criminal charges for the underlying act, even if there is doubt over whether the act was intentional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/17/2001
• Published 10/17/2001

Judges

• VOGEL (MIRIAM A.), J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Ronald P. Schneider, San Francisco, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant., Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Michael J. Leahy, Jules S. Zeman, Christopher Kendrick, and Rita Gunasekaran, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.