Legal Opinion

State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S.

Texas Supreme Court

Decided September 10, 1993No. D-1339PublishedCited by 933 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HIGHTOWER, Justice.

This cause involves the applicability of the intentional injury exclusion of a homeowner’s policy to a claim resulting from the transmission of genital herpes. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm) brought suit against G.W. and S.S. seeking a declaratory judgment that G.W.’s homeowner’s policy did not provide coverage for the claims asserted against him by S.S. The trial court rendered summary judgment in favor of State Farm. The court of appeals reversed and remanded holding that State Farm failed to meet its summary judgment burden because it did not…

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