Lynn Steele appeals the district court’s 1 order granting summary judgment to Allstate Insurance Company and denying her motion to certify certain state-law issues to the Minnesota Supreme Court. We affirm.
*880 I.
This case arises out of wrongful sexual contact between children. In 1993, B.S. (then twelve years old) was raped by her sixteen-year-old stepbrother, James O’Hara, while she was visiting her father and stepmother (Scott and Teresa Steele). Following the rape, B.S.’s mother, Lynn Steele, sued O’Hara, Scott and Teresa Steele, and James Timothy O’Hara (the minor O’Hara’s father) in Minnesota state court. Lynn Steele alleged that the rape was the culmination of several years of escalating sexual advances by the younger O’Hara toward her daughters B.S. and K.S. She sought damages for both of her daughters against the younger O’Hara for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional harm, and against the adult defendants for negligent supervision, negligent failure to protect B.S. and K.S., and negligent infliction of emotional harm.
Allstate Insurance Company then sought a declaratory judgment in federal district court to the effect that none of the seven Deluxe Homeowners Policies it issued to Scott and Teresa Steele between 1987 and 1994 covered damages resulting from the younger O’Hara’s sexual misconduct. In response, Lynn Steele moved in the district court for a stay of the proceedings and for certification of certain insurance coverage questions to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The district court denied the motion for stay and certification and granted summary judgment to Allstate.
See Allstate Ins. Co. v. Steele,
II.
Lynn Steele contends that the district court granted summary judgment prematurely. She argues that, given time to conduct discovery, she might uncover material facts that would preclude summary judgment. We disagree. This case presents only questions of law, and the district court correctly determined that the homeowners policies do not cover Lynn Steele’s claims against James O’Hara and Scott and Teresa Steele. For reasons that appear hereafter, no amount of discovery can change that fact.
A.
The homeowners policy in effect at the time O’Hara raped B.S. (the district court found that all of the policies contain substantially identical language) specifically states that Allstate only covers “damages which an insured person becomes legally obligated to pay because of bodily injury ... arising from an
accident
” (emphasis added). It has long been established under Minnesota law that the word “accident” in insurance policies must be given its common, ordinary meaning,
see, e.g., Bobich v. Oja,
The homeowners policy also excludes coverage for injuries “resulting from” acts that are “intended or expected to cause bodily injury.” Minnesota courts “infer an intent to cause bodily injury as a matter of law” whenever an insured party sexually assaults another person,
State Farm Fire & Cos. Co. v. Williams,
B.
Lynn Steele argues that even if the policy does not cover claims against James O’Hara, she is entitled to recover against Scott and Teresa Steele for negligently supervising the younger O’Hara. The district court found, *881 however, that these negligence claims were barred by the policy’s joint obligations provision, which states:
The terms of this policy impose joint obligations on persons defined as an insured person. This means that the responsibilities, acts and failures to act of a person defined as an insured person will be binding upon another person defined as an insured person.
We admit to finding this provision more than a little mysterious, but we note that most courts that have interpreted it have found that an insured’s intentional acts bar claims against other insureds for negligent supervision.
See, e.g., Allstate Ins. Co. v. Pond Bar,
Even if the joint obligations clause did not bar Lynn Steele’s claims, however, other policy language precludes recovery for negligent supervision. As we have already noted, the policy does not cover damages “resulting from” intentional misconduct. In
Fillmore v. Iowa Nat’l Mutual Ins. Co.,
C.
Lynn Steele also contends that Allstate should cover her claims because Minnesota has adopted the “reasonable expectations” doctrine. This argument is without merit. That doctrine, first endorsed in
Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western Nat’l Mutual Ins. Co.,
' III.
Finally, Lynn Steele argues that the district court erroneously refused to certify to the Minnesota Supreme Court the issue of whether the joint obligations provision bars recovery against Scott and Teresa Steele. We disagree. The question of certification is committed to the sound discretion of the district court,
see, e.g., Lehman Bros. v. Schein,
IV.
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the district court’s order granting summary judgment to Allstate Insurance Company.
Notes
. The Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.