Panel:  Bar Employee’s Conduct Was ‘Textbook Assault And Battery,’ Coverage Barred

Mealey's (May 12, 2022, 2:17 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 10 affirmed a lower federal court ruling that a negligence lawsuit against a bar insured and its owner is excluded from coverage, finding that the bar employee’s conduct is “a textbook assault and battery” and the incident is “clearly a physical altercation.”...