(January 16, 2018, 3:55 PM EST) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 12 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that a liquor liability insurance policy’s assault and battery exclusion relieves the insurer of its duty to defend against an underlying lawsuit that resulted in a $3.5 million consent judgment against its bar owner insured (Jane Doe v. Hudson Specialty Insurance Company, No. 17-11642, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 784)....