O'Connor v. Proprietors Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
1Opinion of the Court
ROVIRA, Justice.
We granted certiorari to consider whether an insurance company must establish a causal connection between the insured’s violation of a regulation and an otherwise insured loss in order to be relieved from liability pursuant to an insurance policy exclusionary clause. The court of appeals held that where there is a provision in an insurance policy specifically excluding coverage in the event of a Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) violation, the insured is not entitled to recover even though there is no causal relationship between the FAA violation and the accident. O’Connor v.…
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