Assault, Battery Exclusion Precludes Coverage; Bad Faith Claim Fails, Panel Says

(August 3, 2023, 10:59 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A district court properly found that no coverage is afforded under a commercial general liability insurance policy for a bar patron’s injuries sustained in a shooting at an insured bar because the policy’s assault and battery exclusion precludes coverage and also properly found that the insured bar owner’s bad faith claim cannot proceed because no coverage is afforded under the policy, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said....