Full explanation of the argument that MJ Estate used for "accidental":

An effect which is the natural and probable consequence of an act or course of action is not an accident, nor is it produced by accidental means. It is either the result of actual design, or it falls under the maxim that every man must be held to intend the natural and probable consequence of his deeds. On the other hand, an effect which is not the natural or probable consequence of the means which produced it, an effect which does not ordinarily follow and cannot be reasonably anticipated from the use of those means, an effect which the actor did not intend to produce and which he cannot be charged with the design of producing, it is produced by accidental means. It is produced by means which were neither designed nor calculated to cause it. SUCH AN EFFECT IS NOT THE RESULT OF DESIGN, CANNOT BE REASONABLY ANTICIPATED, IS UNEXPECTED, and is produced by an unusual combination of fortuitous circumstances; in other words, it is produced by ACCIDENTAL means.

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