No Coverage under Homeowner's Policy for Lethal Punch of Minor

 

In Estate of Sustache v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., 2008 WL 2680443 (Wis., 2008), the question for the Wisconsin Supreme Court was whether an insurer has a duty to defend an insured, under the liability coverage provisions of a homeowner's insurance policy, when the insured “without warning or provocation, punched decedent out, causing him to fall into a curb thereby causing serious injuries and ultimately death,” leading to a count of “battery … by intentionally causing bodily harm … thereby causing decedent's death.”