Panel: Assault And Battery Exclusion Bars Coverage For Battery, Negligence Claims

( November 19, 2025, 8:46 AM EST) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a bar’s insurer in a lawsuit brought by a patron who was hit in the head by a bottle that bounced off another patron at the insured’s premises, holding that the policy’s unambiguous assault and battery exclusion bars coverage for the patron’s battery and negligence claims....

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