PEKIN INS. CO. v. WILSON

No. 108799.

930 N.E.2d 1011 (2010)

237 Ill.2d 446

PEKIN INSURANCE COMPANY et al. (Pekin Insurance Company, Appellant), v. Jack O. WILSON et al. (Jack O. Wilson, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

May 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Marc Chemers, Richard J. Siebert, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chrtd., Chicago (Scott L. Howie, of counsel), for appellant.

L. James Hanson, Mt. Vernon, for appellee.


OPINION

Justice KARMEIER delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

In this insurance coverage dispute, we are asked to determine whether the duty to defend the insured may be triggered by allegations of self-defense in the insured's counterclaim filed in response to an underlying lawsuit alleging the insured's intentional acts, where the policy contains both an exclusion for intentional acts and a self-defense exception to that exclusion. For the...

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