Legal Opinion
Tanner v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided April 17, 2009No. 07-0760PublishedCited by 247 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willett
in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice JOHNSON joined.
A high-speed police chase resulting in a traffic accident sparked a personal-injury lawsuit against the fleeing driver by the family injured in the crash. This related insurance-coverage dispute asks whether the driver's attempts to elude police forfeit coverage under an intentional-injury exclusion in his automobile liability insurance policy. We hold that the insurer did not establish as a matter of law that its insured intentionally caused the…
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