No. 95,202
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
RENE THOMAS,
as Parent and Natural Guardian of Juliana Sanchez and Viviana Sanchez,
Minors and Heirs at Law of Ramon Sanchez, and VICTOR REYES,
Appellees,
v.
BENCHMARK INSURANCE COMPANY,
Appellant.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT
1. Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal, appellate courts apply the same rules and where they find reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment will be denied.
2. An appellate court's review of a trial court's order regarding summary judgment is unlimited. Further, this court has unlimited review over the interpretation of insurance contracts. Hence, we are not bound by the trial court's interpretation of the policy at issue.
3. Insurance coverage provisions are to be interpreted broadly to afford the broadest protection to the insured. It is important, however, for limiting or exclusionary insurance provisions to be construed narrowly against the insurer. An exclusion for damages arising from intentional acts is expressly permitted by K.S.A. 40-3107(i)(6).
4. An intent to injure can be inferred from the nature of the act and the foreseeability of the harm flowing from that act.
5. Where an intentional act results in injuries which are a natural and probable result of the act, the injuries are intentional.
6. Kansas adheres to the general rule that an insurance policy is void as against public policy if it is intended to indemnify an insured against liability for his or her criminal acts.
7. The illegality defense is based on the principle that a party who consents to and participates in an illegal act may not recover from other participants for the consequences of that act. The defense will be applied to bar recovery if the evidence shows that the plaintiff freely and voluntarily consented to participate in the illegal act, without duress or coercion.
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; DANIEL A. DUNCAN, judge. Opinion filed August 18, 2006. Reversed.
J. Franklin Hummer, of Shawnee Mission, for appellant.
Mark Beam-Ward, of Hill, Beam-Ward, Kruse, & Wilson, LLC, of Overland Park, for appellee.
Before MALONE, P.J., GREEN, J., and BUKATY, S.J.
GREEN, J.: Ramon Sanchez was killed and Victor Reyes was injured when Melissa Gutierrez lost control and wrecked the car that she was driving. Both Sanchez and Reyes were passengers in the car. Reyes, along with Rene Thomas, who is the mother of Sanchez, and the natural guardian of Sanchez' minor children, filed a declaratory judgment action. Reyes and Thomas, the plaintiffs, sought to determine whether Gutierrez, who also died in the wreck, had liability coverage for the wreck under a car insurance policy issued to her by Benchmark Insurance Company (Benchmark). Benchmark contended that no liability coverage existed under the policy because of the illegal acts of Gutierrez, Sanchez, and Reyes. The trial court, however, granted summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs upon finding that Benchmark's illegality defense was inapplicable to this case. We agree. The trial court, however, did not address Benchmark's other argument that liability coverage was excluded under the unexpected and unintended act provisions of its policy. Determining that an intent to injure can be inferred from the nature of the act and the foreseeability of harm flowing from that act, our Supreme Court, in Bell v. Tilton, 234 Kan. 461, Syl. ¶ 2, 674 P.2d 468 (1983), declared: "Where an intentional act results in injuries which are a natural and probable result of the act, the injuries are intentional." We determine that Gutierrez' purposeful conduct in driving a car at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. in an attempt to elude police would meet the above test. As a result, we reverse the judgment of the trial court.
The parties do not dispute the basic facts of what transpired the night of November 8, 2003. Reyes went to a pub in Overland Park, Kansas, with Sanchez and Gutierrez. While at the pub, they consumed alcohol, and Reyes and Sanchez got into a fight with several other individuals that began inside the pub. The fight later moved outside the pub. Reyes and Sanchez got into Gutierrez' car. Sanchez sat in the front passenger seat, and Reyes sat in the back seat. Sanchez grabbed a gun and fired approximately 10 shots in the general direction of a crowd of people. Gutierrez then drove off at a high rate of speed and eventually entered Interstate 635, where a police officer spotted them and began pursuit. After the officer activated his emergency lights, Sanchez threw the gun out of the car. Then, Gutierrez pulled onto the shoulder of the highway and stopped the car. When the officer got out of his car, Gutierrez drove off. According to Reyes, he and Sanchez had told Gutierrez not to drive off, but "she just took off anyway."
The officer lost sight of Gutierrez' car as she exited onto Shawnee Drive. According to Reyes, Gutierrez lost control of the car while on Shawnee Drive. The car flipped several times, and Sanchez was thrown from the car.
Gutierrez and Sanchez died as a result of injuries they sustained in the wreck. Reyes, who was wearing a seatbelt, survived but sustained various injuries. The record indicated that Gutierrez was driving at speeds of 100 m.p.h. while attempting to elude the police.
Benchmark defended the plaintiffs' declaratory judgment action, in part, on an illegality defense theory. Benchmark argued that public policy precluded the plaintiffs from being indemnified for the damages caused by the criminal conduct of Gutierrez and the passengers in attempting to elude police during a high speed car chase. Benchmark also contended that the intentional conduct of the occupants barred recovery.
Plaintiffs moved for summary judgment. Following a nonevidentiary hearing, the trial court granted plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The trial court determined that the illegality defense did not apply. The court explained: "The Court considers the prior illegal acts that occurred before the eluding of the police as being too remote in time. Regarding the eluding, the Court does not find that there is any evidence to show that Sanchez or Reyes were involved in the decision to elude the police."
Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs?
Benchmark challenges the trial court's entry of summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs on several grounds: (1) The trial court failed to give Benchmark, as the nonmoving party, the benefit of all inferences to be drawn from the evidence, particularly with respect to the occupants' willing participation in crimes and the driver's intentional conduct; (2) the trial court erroneously concluded that no causal connection existed between the events at the pub and the later wreck; (3) the insurance policy and public policy prohibit coverage for such intentional and malicious acts as those that occurred here; and (4) the trial court erred in rejecting Benchmark's argument that the "illegality defense" barred coverage.
"'"Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal, we apply the same rules and where we find reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment must be denied." [Citation omitted.]' [Citations omitted.]" State ex rel. Stovall v. Reliance Ins. Co., 278 Kan. 777, 788, 107 P.3d 1219 (2005).
To the extent there is no factual dispute, appellate review of a trial court's order regarding summary judgment is unlimited. Roy v. Young, 278 Kan. 244, 247, 93 P.3d 712 (2004). Further, this court has unlimited review over the interpretation of insurance contracts. Hence, we are not bound by the trial court's interpretation of the policy at issue. See Marshall v. Kansas Med. Mut. Ins. Co., 276 Kan. 97, 111, 73 P.3d 120 (2003).
Intentional acts
On appeal, Benchmark raises an argument that it made below. Benchmark maintains that the intentional act of Gutierrez in driving at excessive speeds prohibited recovery under the insurance policy. Benchmark contends that the wreck was a "'natural and probable consequence'" of Gutierrez' actions. In granting plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, the trial court did not address Benchmark's argument that its intentional act exclusion barred coverage under its insurance policy.
The insurance policy issued by Benchmark to Gutierrez provides, in relevant part, that Benchmark "will pay damages for bodily injury or property damage for which you or any family member becomes legally responsible because of an auto accident." The policy, in turn, defines "auto accident" as "an unexpected and unintended event that causes bodily injury or property damage and arises out of the ownership, maintenance or use of an auto or other motor vehicle." The policy further states: "This coverage does not apply to bodily injury caused intentionally by you or any family member." It is this clause that Benchmark relies on in arguing that Gutierrez' intentional act in driving at excessive speeds on both the highway and residential streets precluded recovery.
Insurance coverage provisions are to be interpreted broadly to afford the broadest protection to the insured. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Falley, 23 Kan. App. 2d 21, 22, 926 P.2d 664 (1996), rev. denied 261 Kan. 1086 (1997). It is important, however, for limiting or exclusionary insurance provisions to be construed narrowly against the insurer. Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 265 Kan. 317, 327, 961 P.2d 1213 (1998); Falley, 23 Kan. App. 2d at 22. An exclusion for damages arising from intentional acts is expressly permitted by K.S.A. 40-3107(i)(6).
As Benchmark points out, this court has provided guidance in interpreting exclusionary clauses such as the one at issue here. In Falley, the insurance policy at issue excluded coverage "for any damages arising from an intentional act." 23 Kan. App. 2d at 22. After acknowledging the public policy prohibiting coverage for intentional and malicious acts, this court stated that neither an overly restrictive interpretation of an intentional act exclusion nor the adoption of a test which depends upon an after-the-fact account of the insured's subjective intent would serve such public aims. Further, the Falley court rejected the insurance company's assertion that once an intentional act is shown, the exclusion should apply to any damages that result. In doing so, this court explained that to adopt such an overly broad interpretation of the exclusion would effectively negate coverage under the policy. 23 Kan. App. 2d at 27.
Ultimately, the Falley court adopted the following test for determining whether an intentional act exclusion applies: "[W]e conclude the exclusion for 'any damages arising from an intentional act' encompasses any injury which is a natural and probable consequence of the insured's intentional act." 23 Kan. App. 2d at 28.
Benchmark contends that the wreck and the resulting fatalities and injuries were a direct result of Gutierrez' attempt to elude the police. As a result, Benchmark argues that the wreck was a natural and probable consequence of Gutierrez' intentional act of speeding. Benchmark maintains that "[n]o one can drive at that speed [100 m.p.h.] on those kinds of streets for that long without expecting to wreck to [sic] kill or injure someone."
On the other hand, the plaintiffs contend that although Gutierrez was driving "at a reckless and excessive speed," her loss of control of the car "was undesigned and unexpected, i.e. an accident." Plaintiffs argue that to construe actions such as that of Gutierrez in any other way would be contrary to prevailing law and could lead to absurd results. Plaintiffs suggest that an insurance company could simply deny coverage any time an insured exceeded the speed limit on the ground that such conduct was intentional.
Although Falley is instructive, it is distinguishable from this case based on the language of the exclusionary provisions. In Falley, the policy excluded coverage "'for any damages arising from an intentional act.'" 23 Kan. App. 2d at 26. Here, the Benchmark policy excluded bodily injury or property damage that was expected and intended. Moreover, the Benchmark policy excluded bodily injury caused by an intentional act. In Falley, the damages needed not to be expected or intended. Moreover, the Falley court stated that "exclusion for injuries 'expected or intended by an insured' would apparently be narrower than an exclusion for 'any damages arising from an intentional act.'" 23 Kan. App. 2d at 26.
A basic function of insurance is that it will furnish indemnity for unexpected or fortuitous events. Defining the word "accident," this court held that the word had a generally accepted meaning in Kansas as "'an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event, usually of an afflictive or unfortunate character, and often accompanied by a manifestation of force.'" Whitaker v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 13 Kan. App. 2d 279, 282-83, 768 P.2d 320 (1989) (quoting Gilliland v. Cement Co., 104 Kan. 771, 773, 180 Pac. 793 [1919]); see also Boring v. Haynes, 209 Kan. 413, 422, 496 P.2d 1385 (1972) (approving Gilliland's definition of "accident"). Gutierrez' policy defined an auto accident as an "unexpected and unintended event that causes bodily injury or property damage and arises out of the ownership, maintenance or use of an auto or other motor vehicle."
Benchmark's use of the word "and" in defining an auto accident as an "unexpected and unintended event" requires the plaintiffs to show that the accident was both unexpected and unintended. In Bell v. Tilton, 234 Kan. 461, 674 P.2d 468 (1983), our Supreme Court adopted a test to be used when "expected" or "intended" language is used in an insurance policy exclusion.
Leading to its holding in Bell, our Supreme Court considered the nature of the act and the foreseeability of harm flowing from the act. In Bell, the insured, a young boy, shot a friend in the eye with a BB gun while playing a game. The insured testified in his deposition that he had not intended to injure his friend's eye. Nevertheless, there was evidence that the insured had intended to strike one of the boys at whom he was shooting and to cause a sting. The trial court determined that the insured should have expected an injury from his conduct in shooting a BB gun at his friend's face. Agreeing with the trial court, our Supreme Court stated:
"Under the 'expected or intended from the standpoint of the insured' policy exclusion language, it was not necessary for the garnishee insurance company to show Rusty Tilton specifically intended to strike Christopher Bell in the eye with a BB pellet in order to deny liability. Rather, if from the acts, circumstances, and inferences of the case, it appeared Rusty Tilton had the desire to cause the consequences of his acts or he believed the consequences were substantially certain to result, his conduct was intentional and the policy exclusion was operative." Bell, 234 Kan. at 472.
Applying this test, the Bell court determined that substantial evidence supported the finding that the insured had acted intentionally in shooting his friend.
Similarly, our Supreme Court in Harris v. Richards, 254 Kan. 549, 554, 867 P.2d 325 (1994), dealt with a homeowner's insurance policy that excluded coverage of "'[b]odily injury or property damage expected or intended by an insured.'" The issue was whether the insured's homeowner's policy provided coverage for injuries sustained by a victim when the insured fired shotgun rounds into the back window of a pickup truck. The insured knew the truck was occupied, but darkness prevented him from seeing whether he was shooting at his ex-wife or the victim. Shotgun pellets struck the victim's face. The insured then walked around to the side door and fired a third shot, killing his ex-wife. Later, the insured killed himself.
The victim sued the insured's estate to recover damages. The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of the estate, finding that the shooting was not a covered occurrence under the policy. Moreover, the trial court determined that the policy's intentional acts exclusion precluded coverage.
Our Supreme Court concluded that the shooting did not constitute an "occurrence," which the policy essentially defined as an accident. Moreover, citing Bell, the Harris court held that the victim's injuries were a "natural and probable consequence of [the insured's] act." 254 Kan. at 556. The court grounded its conclusion in the fact that the insured had knowingly fired his shotgun into the pickup truck, which he knew to be occupied. As a result, the Harris court affirmed the trial court's determination that the "intentional injury" exclusion prohibited recovery. 254 Kan. at 556.
The phrase "intended" that was construed in Bell and Harris has been interpreted at least three different ways in decisions of courts across this country. Jerry, Understanding Insurance Law § 63C (3d ed. 2002). The majority view is that "the insured must have intended both the act and to cause some kind of injury or damage." Jerry, Understanding Insurance Law § 63C, p. 483. Under the "minority view-intent," "the insured must have had the specific intent not only to injure but also to cause the particular type of injury suffered." Jerry, Understanding Insurance Law § 63C, p. 483. Finally, the "minority view-negligence" applies "the classic tort doctrine of looking to the natural and probable consequence of the insured's act" to determine intent. Jerry, Understanding Insurance Law § 63C, p. 483. Under this approach, "if the intentional act by the insured results in injuries or damage that are a natural or probable result of the act, the loss is intentional for purposes of the exclusion and no coverage exists." (Emphasis added.) Jerry, Understanding Insurance Law § 63C, p. 483.
In Bell, our Supreme Court clearly rejected a rule that would require the insurer to show that the insured specifically intended to cause the particular type of injury suffered. See also Harris, 254 Kan. at 553 ("We do not follow the specific intent rule."). Moreover, the Bell court did not adopt the majority approach: that the insured must have intended the conduct in question and intended some kind of injury or damage to result from the activity in question. Instead, it is clear that the Bell court adopted the approach that when intentional acts result in injuries or damages that stem from the natural and probable result of the acts, the injuries are intentional. Determining that an intent to injure can be inferred from the nature of the act and the foreseeability of harm flowing from that act, the Bell court declared: "Where an intentional act results in injuries which are a natural and probable result of the act, the injuries are intentional." 234 Kan. 461, Syl. ¶ 2. See also Harris, 254 Kan. at 553 (following the natural and probable consequences test adopted in Bell).
Nevertheless, the dissent suggests that we should follow the majority view:
"The majority opinion acknowledges that the majority view of courts across the country on the interpretation of the phrase, 'intended,' is that 'the insured must have intended both the act and to cause some kind of injury or damage.' I respectfully submit we should follow that view in this traffic case."
The dissent's position is out of step with the test adopted in Bell and followed in Harris. Further, the dissent's position runs counter to this court's duty to follow Supreme Court precedent. This court is duty bound to follow Kansas Supreme Court precedent, absent some indication that the court is departing from its previous position. Noone v. Chalet of Wichita, 32 Kan. App. 2d 1230, 1236, 96 P.3d 674, rev. denied 278 Kan. 846 (2004). The dissent offers no authority which would indicate that our Supreme Court has shifted from the "natural and probable consequences" test to the majority approach. Absent any indication that our Supreme Court has moved towards the majority approach, we must follow the "natural and probable consequences" test that our Supreme Court adopted in Bell.
Applying the Bell test to this case, we determine that Gutierrez' purposeful conduct in driving a car at speeds of 100 m.p.h. in an attempt to elude police precluded coverage in this matter. Gutierrez' volitional conduct of speeding in an attempt to elude police was virtually certain to lead to injury or loss. Moreover, the injury or loss in this wreck was not "unexpected."
The dissent, however, characterizes Gutierrez' conduct as essentially that of someone who exceeded the speed limit while driving. In support of this characterization, the dissent compares this case to two examples:
(1) "I find little difference in this case and one where a person intentionally consumes alcohol to the point of intoxication, intentionally gets into his or her car in an impaired condition, and then drives recklessly and causes an accident that in turn results in injury or death to another." and (2) "Nor do I find much distinction between this case and a situation where a person late for work intentionally runs a red light at a busy intersection during morning rush hour in order to make up time and strikes a vehicle broadside causing injury or death to another."
After making these comparisons, the dissent reasons as follows:
"As mentioned above, in either case, one could argue in one sense, that the injuries were the natural and probable result of the intentional acts of the drivers, in the first case driving while drunk and in the second case in running a red light at a busy intersection at rush hour. It could be argued that a vehicle crash or collision would be foreseeable and expected whenever a person commits such acts. Yet we invariably view such cases as negligence cases or perhaps gross, wanton, and reckless cases. However, I know of no Kansas decisions that preclude coverage in either of these or similar situations under the intentional act exclusion or because a wreck under these circumstances did not fall within the definition of an accident under a liability policy."
The strength of the dissent's analogical argument depends on the importance of the resemblance of the dissent's two examples to the facts of this case. The similarities must be essential and the differences unessential.
To the contrary, the differences in the key facts in the dissent's two examples are significant. In the dissent's two examples, each lacks the crucial facts present in this case: Gutierrez' flight from the police and the police in hot pursuit of her. Because these significant differences are overlooked in the dissent's two examples, the dissent's analogical argument is questionable. As a result, no proper analogy can be drawn between the dissent's two examples and this case.
Finally, the dissent asks these questions:
"[I]f we conclude that intentionally speeding bars coverage here, will it always do so or just sometimes? If just sometimes, we must then ask at what level of a driver's intentional speed do we conclude that death and injury are a probable and foreseeable result that precludes coverage? . . . Would it be a speed of 40, 60, 70, 90, or 100 m.p.h.?"
These questions suggest a slippery slope argument. The fallacy in the slippery slope is the assumption that once something gets started there is no stopping. Nevertheless, intentional act questions are decided on a case-by-case basis. Moreover, the type of conduct that is sufficiently volitional to bar coverage is highly fact-based. Consequently, this slippery slope argument is not logically relevant to the resolution of this case.
Although we could not find a case specifically on point with this case, we found at least one court that has considered the issue of whether fleeing from police while driving a car was sufficiently intended to preclude coverage under the intentional act provision of a car insurance policy. In Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Finkley, 112 Ohio App. 3d 712, 679 N.E.2d 1189 (1996), 16-year-old Stembridge, who did not have a driver's license, and his friends went joyriding in a van stolen from Stembridge's grandmother. When officers attempted to pull over Stembridge, Stembridge fled in the van. While trying to elude the police, Stembridge failed to stop at a stop sign and crashed into another automobile. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company filed a declaratory judgment action, claiming that there was no coverage for the accident. The automobile insurance policy excluded: "'Property damage or bodily injury caused intentionally by or at the direction of an insured, including willful acts the result of which the insured knows or ought to know will follow from the insured's conduct.'" 112 Ohio App. 3d at 715. The trial court later granted summary judgment to Nationwide, determining that the acts in question came within the "intentional acts" exclusion contained in the automobile insurance policy issued to Stembridge's grandmother.
On appeal, the Ohio Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's decision, holding that "where an insured willfully and purposefully attempts to elude the police in an automobile chase through an urban area in reckless disregard of traffic control devices, his actions are substantially certain to result in injury." 112 Ohio App. 3d at 715. The Ohio Court of Appeals noted that the added fact that a person does not have a driver's license only strengthens such a conclusion. In determining that coverage was excluded in that case, the Ohio Court of Appeals stated that "Stembridge willfully committed acts which he, at the very least, ought to have known were substantially certain to cause injury." 112 Ohio App. 3d at 715-16.
Although the Finkley court did not apply the natural and probable consequences test, the test that the Finkley court applied was more favorable for coverage than the natural and probable consequences test. Yet, the Finkley court determined that the volitional act of eluding police through an urban area in reckless disregard of traffic control devices was substantially certain to result in injury. The Finkley court also relied on the Ohio Supreme Court decision in Gearing v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 76 Ohio St. 3d 34, 39, 665 N.E.2d 1115 (1996), noting that
"'[i]n those cases where an intentional act is substantially certain to cause injury, determination of an insured's subjective intent, or lack of subjective intent, is not conclusive of the issue of coverage. Rather, an insured's protestations that he "didn't mean to hurt anyone" are only relevant where the intentional act at issue is not substantially certain to result in injury.'" 112 Ohio App. 3d at 715.
Turning our attention now to the facts of this case, we note that Reyes' deposition testimony showed that the loss or injury was foreseeable and substantially certain to occur. In its response to the plaintiffs' summary judgment motion, Benchmark cites to Reyes' deposition testimony that Gutierrez was driving 100 m.p.h. "down Shawnee Drive all the way down to Maplehill Cemetery" where the wreck occurred. Earlier in his testimony, Reyes indicated that when Gutierrez exited off the interstate onto Shawnee Drive, Gutierrez pulled into the lane of oncoming traffic and then failed to stop at the end of the exit ramp before entering Shawnee Drive. Gutierrez then drove down Shawnee Drive, which was a two-lane road, until the wreck occurred at Maplehill Cemetery. Reyes indicated that the wreck occurred when Gutierrez, who was traveling 100 m.p.h., bottomed out at an intersection marked by a stop sign. Reyes explained how the wreck occurred:
"[Q:] What intersection now, Shawnee and what?
"[A:] Shawnee and 47th.
"[Q:] She was going 100 miles an hour through that intersection?
"[A:] Yeah. We was flooring it all the way down until I told her–my last words to everybody in the car was we're going to bottom out once we hit the stop sign.
"[Q:] At what intersection?
"[A:] That's 47th–I think it's 38th, I think. 38th and Shawnee Drive.
"[Q:] 38th and Shawnee Drive? Okay.
"[A:] And I thought we were going to bottom out and the next thing I know we bottomed out the car, slides–bottoms out and comes my way and really starts going backwards. And we hit the ditch and popped up . . . ."
Reyes' testimony establishes that Gutierrez was traveling at 100 m.p.h. on a two-lane road in reckless disregard of traffic control signs while attempting to elude police officers. It is clear that under such circumstances, Gutierrez' conduct was substantially certain to result in injury. Because the loss or injury was foreseeable and substantially certain to occur, such loss or injury was barred under the intentional act exclusion of Gutierrez' policy.
For the above reasons, we reverse based on