Insured Established Potential For Exclusion’s Reasonable Force Exception To Apply

(April 26, 2019, 9:50 AM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — Denying an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in its declaratory judgment lawsuit disputing coverage for underlying battery and negligence claims, a Maryland federal judge on March 26 held that an insured satisfied its burden of establishing a potentiality that the “reasonable force exception” to the policy’s “battery exclusion” applies to trigger coverage (Nautilus Insurance Company v. 200 West Cherry Street, LLC, No. 18-434, D. Md., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50043)....