063628P.pdf   06/26/2007  Allstate Insurance  v.  Tonja Blount
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3628
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Hansen, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - Insurance law. State wrongful death consent judgment
   does not bar insurer from litigating the issue of policy coverage;
   underlying complaint in the wrongful death action alleged claims of
   negligence and these claims constituted an occurrence under the policy's
   damages provision; however, Allstate can avoid liability if it can establish
   that the criminal acts exclusion in the policy applies; homeowner's guilty
   plea to first-degree manslaughter collaterally estopped victim's estate
   from arguing that homeowner committed a criminal act; however,
   collateral estoppel does not bar the estate from challenging the second
   prong of the exclusion - whether bodily injury may have reasonably be
   expected to result from that criminal act; as a result, the district court did
   not err in denying the insurer's motion for summary judgment.