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The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts last week reversed a lower court's judgment in favor of an insurance company, finding a single push in an unprovoked attack by the insured did not preclude coverage relating to the term "physical abuse" in the context of the abuse and molestation exclusion.

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