The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently reversed a lower court’s judgment in favor of an insurer, discovering a single push in an unprovoked attack by the insured did not prevent protection associating with the term “physical abuse” in the context of the abuse and molestation exemption.
In a March 16 viewpoint, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court all reversed a judgment in favor of the complainant, Dorchester Mutual Insurance Coverage Co., after the guaranteed, 30-year-old William Brengle, started an unprovoked attack on Leonard Miville, 61, by punching him in the head and consistently kicking him, triggering major injuries.