Majority: Criminal Act Exclusion Relieves Liquor Liability Insurer Of Defense Duty

( June 27, 2018, 1:57 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A majority of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 25 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that a liquor liability insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a pizza shop owner against an underlying lawsuit filed by a minor who was served alcohol and subsequently raped by the owner of the establishment, finding that the criminal act exclusion bars coverage (Century Surety Company v. Scott M. Seidel, et al., No. 17-10026, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 17252)....

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