No Homeowners Coverage Owed For Flag Football Assault, Massachusetts Panel Affirms

(April 5, 2022, 1:14 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts appeals panel on April 4 affirmed a lower court’s grant of a homeowners insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in its lawsuit disputing coverage for an underlying assault and battery lawsuit, saying the lower court did not err in finding that the defendant’s deliberate striking of an opponent’s head in a youth flag football game established his intent to cause the resulting harm....