Assault And Battery Exclusion Does Not Bar Coverage, New Jersey Panel Affirms 

(May 30, 2019, 1:52 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appeals panel on May 28 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a commercial general liability insurance policy’s assault and battery exclusion does not bar coverage for an underlying claim alleging that the insured’s negligent maintenance of the property caused an injury, further affirming the lower court’s finding that the insurer was estopped from denying coverage (C.M.S. Investment Ventures, Inc., et al. v. American European Insurance Company, et al., No. A-2056-17T3, N.J. Super., App. Div., 2019 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1215)....

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