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211725P.pdf 05/10/2022 Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Ray A. Perrin
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-1725
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Insurance. The district court did not err in determining the
incident in question - where the insured's employee assaulted a patron -
was excluded under the insurance policy provision that precluded coverage
for injuries that arose from physical altercations; with respect to
defendants' argument that even if the assault-and-battery exclusion
applies, their negligence counts as a separate, covered cause under the
concurrent-proximate-cause rule, they were not entitled to indemnity under
Missouri law because their negligence was not truly independent and
distinct from the assault, battery, or physical altercation.