Allstate Insurance v. Barron

Opinion

SULLIVAN, C. J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff, Allstate Insurance Company, had a duty to indemnify its insured under a homeowners’ insurance policy issued by the plaintiff to Charles S. and Kelly S. The plaintiff filed this declaratory judgment action against the defendants1 seeking a determination that it had no such duty. It then filed a motion for summary judgment claiming, inter alia, that there was no genuine issue of material fact as to whether the insured’s conduct was intentional within the meaning of the policy’s intentional conduct exclusion…