No Liquor Liability Coverage Owed For Dramshop Dispute, 10th Circuit Affirms

( July 16, 2024, 1:31 PM EDT) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held July 15 that a lower federal court did not err in concluding that a liquor liability insurance policy’s assault and battery exclusion unambiguously barred coverage for an underlying dramshop claim brought against the insured, affirming a lower federal court’s grant of the insurer’s motion to dismiss a breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit brought by the insured’s assignee....