Great American Assurance Co. v. Elliott

ORDER

TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, District Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a farm insurance policy for bodily injury and property damage requires the insurer to indemnify its insured against a civil judgment that arose from the insured dismembering his mother’s dead body with an axe, setting parts of her body on fire, and then distributing her remains on the family farm. The Court answers this question “no.”

I. Procedural History

Plaintiff Great American Assurance Company filed this action seeking a declaration that the Agripak Farm and Ranch Policy (“the Policy”) it issued to Martha…