No Duty to Defend Where Underlying Complaints Allege Intentional Acts

 

In Adolph Coors Co. v. Truck Ins. Exchange, 2008 WL 4997865 (D.C), the insurer Truck Insurance Exchange (“TIE”) contracted to indemnify the insured, Adolph Coors Company and Coors Brewing Company (“Coors”) for damages the insured had to pay “because of bodily injury caused by an occurrence to which this insurance applies” during the policy coverage periods. TIE further contracted to defend Coors in any suit “seeking damages on account of such bodily injury, even if any of the allegations of the suit are groundless, false, or fraudulent.”