Fatal Harvard Stabbing Covered by Insurance
A former Harvard graduate student can rely on his mother's insurance policy for a $260,000 judgment he owes to the estate of a teenager he killed in a drunken fight eight years ago.
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U.S. District Judge Patti Saris found last week that Pring's homeowner's policy with Fire Insurance does not cover the court judgment against her son, but that "Farmers Insurance has a duty to indemnify Pring-Wilson according to the terms of its umbrella policy."
The Farmers policy's exclusion clause states that it will not cover damages that are "either expected or intended from the standpoint of the insured."
"Farmers has not established that Pring-Wilson subjectively expected or intended any harm to Colono," Saris wrote (italics in original). "The wounds were shallow and consistent with Pring-Wilson's description and demonstration in court that he was waving the knife back and forth to ward off his assailants."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/12/29/42641.htm
